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Old 12-05-2017, 1:30 PM
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MDARC is running a Tech class next month:

http://www.mdarc.org/activities/education/Classes

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License testing will be conducted after the last session of License Classes. See the schedule below. A mandated additional fee applies. Currently, that fee is $15.00.

License testing is also done most months just before the Mount Diablo Amateur Radio Club meetings. See the Licensing page at www.MDARC.org for details & exceptions.

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Just a tech, but not going to post my call sign on here. Your call sign shows your home address and we are(mostly) all gun owners. I’d prefer not to post my address on the internet to where I store my guns and ammo...
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Just a tech, but not going to post my call sign on here. Your call sign shows your home address
Mine shows a PO box many miles from home.
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Old 12-08-2017, 11:36 AM
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Got the ARRL book off amazon...wife and I are studying for the test on January 13...in Benicia, Ca...at the firehouse 9:00am
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You can also take practice exams on line too like QRZ
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Just a tech, but not going to post my call sign on here. Your call sign shows your home address and we are(mostly) all gun owners. I’d prefer not to post my address on the internet to where I store my guns and ammo...
Good call. I got a PO Box solely so I could change my FCC address to the PO box... but their online license search system apparently still shows prior addresses registered to the license. You won't see me publish my callsign on any public forum.
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Mine shows a PO box many miles from home.
Double-check that. When I search my callsign in the ULS, it does show my PO Box, but it also has a spot where any anonymous user can click on previous iterations of the license, thereby seeing my home address which was on my original application.

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You can also take practice exams on line too like QRZ
Check...we use the book and book Q&A at home
and when away from home the Q&A on hamexam.org

Edit:also got our FRN #s although I'm unclear on how to use except maybe quicker test registration
and/or vanity call applications
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Ham test online is a great tool to use if you want to get your license or upgrade. I got my extra ticket today and it only took my three weeks using hamtestonline.com. Worth every penny. I do have an extra study guide if anyone is interested. Just pay shipping and its yours.
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Ham test online is a great tool to use if you want to get your license or upgrade. I got my extra ticket today and it only took my three weeks using hamtestonline.com. Worth every penny. I do have an extra study guide if anyone is interested. Just pay shipping and its yours.
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Thank you. Looking foward to working the dx down at the bottom ends.
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Ham test online is a great tool to use if you want to get your license or upgrade. I got my extra ticket today and it only took my three weeks using hamtestonline.com. Worth every penny. I do have an extra study guide if anyone is interested. Just pay shipping and its yours.
Thanks for the suggestion...love the format...we signed up for it

I'll now use the ARRL book for reference data

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Thanks for the suggestion...love the format...we signed up for it

I'll now use the ARRL book for reference data

Congrats on your new ticket
It's a great system. Put in an hour a day or 45/30 minutes whatever you can manage, and just go through the study mode. Even if you are getting the questions wrong keep going don't get discouraged. You will start catching on. Once you get about 90 percent through the material it will suggest you take the practice tests, and within days you will be amazed. I still can't believe I did it in three weeks.

And when you are ready to test go to hamcram.com and there is a testing session now in manteca or stockton every month. Walk in testing is free too.

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It's a great system. Put in an hour a day or 45/30 minutes whatever you can manage, and just go through the study mode. Even if you are getting the questions wrong keep going don't get discouraged. You will start catching on. Once you get about 90 percent through the material it will suggest you take the practice tests, and within days you will be amazed. I still can't believe I did it in three weeks.

And when you are ready to test go to hamcram.com and there is a testing session now in manteca or stockton every month. Walk in testing is free too.

Good luck in your studies
Agreed...I love their method of subject presentation followed by questions
I will stick with the course to the end having paid for it...

My wife is using a different method, taking different practice tests over and over and over and over...she's already at 27 out of 35 which is a passing score but she needs more time to absorb material and is now reading on the side

I appreciate the Manteca/Stockton info...we go to the range in Linden...
But with the holidays and the study format I'm using, we will likely stick with taking the test in Benicia on Jan 13...
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Next Ham Cram for SBC ARES is Jan 20, SBCARES.org
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Tested in Petaluma a few weeks ago and my technician license posted on Tuesday. Very excited to begin, had been meaning to get it for about the last 20 years Napa / Sonoma fires relit the match under my ***. Programming my radios this weekend.
Any east bay folks that know of repeater frequencies I will be able to hit from Richmond / Point Richmond please send my way

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Tested in Petaluma a few weeks ago and my technician license posted on Tuesday. Very excited to begin, had been meaning to get it for about the last 20 years Napa / Sonoma fires relit the match under my ***. Programming my radios this weekend.
Any east bay folks that know of repeater frequencies I will be able to hit from Richmond / Point Richmond please send my way

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Thanks and Happy Holidays!!

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KM6xxx, Sonoma County.
Just got my tech, and veeerrrryyyyy slowly getting in to it. Not a world I have any knowledge about, but it's interesting to learn!
I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to program my radio to hit the repeaters yet, and just have a cheapo baefong until I learn the basics. Hopefully I'll find time over the next month or two to figure things out, and buy a decent radio.
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Tested in Petaluma a few weeks ago and my technician license posted on Tuesday. Very excited to begin, had been meaning to get it for about the last 20 years Napa / Sonoma fires relit the match under my ***. Programming my radios this weekend.
Any east bay folks that know of repeater frequencies I will be able to hit from Richmond / Point Richmond please send my way

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Thanks and Happy Holidays!!

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Ha, I bet we were at the same test date!
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Anyone partaking in this weekends ARRL VHF contest? I will be operating portable on a mountain top in the east bay. Starts at 11am tomorrow. If you're in the bay area or valley monitor 146.520, and give me your call sign and grid square. I am a W station.

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I got my Tech license last summer

located in the Inland Empire, So Cal.

not going to post my call sign.

will be working on my general soon.
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Been into it for 5 yrs or so. General. Great hobby. Like DX, 500w and remote QRP, would like to do more SOTA type stuff but so much work/other stuff going on. Hope to learn/practice CW very soon! 73
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Been licensed for over 40+ years here with an Advanced Class non Vanity 2X2 call. I originally tested at the FCC Field Office back in Detroit with a WD8*** prefix during the US Bicentennial as a 16 year old teenager, so I do know and use CW quite often.

Active mostly on HF operating CW, and some SSB using older American made gear some tube type and older solid state dear/ Drake, Collins, Heathkit, Ten Tec, Atlas, Swan, and I have only one Japanese HF rig an Alinco DX-70TH. Living on 80 acres of timber on a hilltop, I have many HF wire antennas usually fed with 450 ohm Twin Lead Ladder Line instead of coaxial cable.

I can usually be found on the weekend 40 Meter West Coast Swap Net on 7.240 MHz LSB (12:30 to 3 pm) listening for the deal of the day, or some exotic older piece of equipment to show up, since I can and do work on most of my own radios.





My HF AM station and rack mounted Collins receivers. Heathkit DX-100 transmitter at 100 watts of plate modulated AM, and rack mounted Mil Surplus VHF BC-639, R-388, and R-390 HF receivers.



I hardly ever operate VHF/ UHF FM thru repeaters unless on a road trip. I would rather operate VHF CW and SSB with my older Yaesu FT-221.



The HTs I have are several older Yaesu FT-727 dual banders and FT-109 220 MHz which use the same batteries, Yaesu FT-50R (2 of them), Radioshack HTX-200 and HTX-400 mini handhelds, and much older Icom 2AT and 3AT. I found them over the years on Ebay and at a very reasonable costs/ some for even less than the cost of a new Chinese HT.
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Very impressive. You could open a museum!
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Thanks - I am just carrying on the tradition of my long time "Elmer"/ mentor who is now a 'Silent-Key' - Shally K6VHP who ran a business "CLASSIC RADIO - Real Radios Glow In The Dark", and specialized in restoring older vacuum tube ham gear. That is besides his being the Chief Engineer at a local TV Station..



He had a mini museum with lots of the older tube type amateur radio equipment he had restored.





For the price of one of the brand new whiz bang do-it-all push button I-Ken-SU top dollar amateur radio HF rigs, I have a room full (and then some) of older vacuum tube and early solid state (have to turn the knobs) radios, and I have worked all over the world with them for over 42+ years now.
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Got my ticket 5 years ago, I mostly operate on 2 meters and 440.

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LA CERT is running a free one day class in a week or two. If anyone is interest, PM me and I’ll look up the info.
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Old 05-27-2018, 12:11 PM
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If anyone is interested...

Home Depot sells ham radio antenna gear on their website for low prices. You can have it shipped to your local store for free.

I just got a TRAM magnetic NMO mount for $23.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tram-5-5...267R/300026068

Other TRAM stuff:

https://www.homedepot.com/s/tram?NCNI-5

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