Steve_M_Kile@cup.portal.com (11/04/90)
I am presently studying for the FCC General Radiotelephone Operators License. I will be taking the exam in Feb. 1991. Any advice, suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Steve, N0FBL steve_m_kile@cup.portal.com
jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) (11/05/90)
Steve_M_Kile@cup.portal.com writes: >I am presently studying for the FCC General Radiotelephone Operators >License. I will be taking the exam in Feb. 1991. Any advice, suggestions >or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Having just renewed my license, I've still got the rules on my mind :-) First off, make sure they will actually let you sit for it. Generally unless you are working on shipboard or aviation electronics, they won't give it now. Next, call the day before you go to confirm the current status. Then call the day you go. You'll probably get a different story. I called for a renewal form recently. They told me that there is no renewal fee and sent a form. I mailed it in and got it back Friday. The note said that I failed to include the renewal fee and that I'd used the wrong form. Our government, your friend and mine :-( Lastly, brush up on your broadcasting, especially TV. As much as I hate to recommend crib notes, I suggest you get one of the verbatim question and answer guides. There are several questions on the test for which all the answers are wrong. You need to know which wrong answer they want :-) (And no, memory does not serve well enough to remember which ones.) Finally, brush up on your schematic reading and diagnostic skills. There were several questions on my test of the sort "What is wrong with this schematic?" John -- John De Armond, WD4OQC | "The truly ignorant in our society are those people Radiation Systems, Inc. | who would throw away the parts of the Constitution Atlanta, Ga | they find inconvenient." -me Defend the 2nd {emory,uunet}!rsiatl!jgd| with the same fervor as you do the 1st.