NINE NINE SIX SIX AT LONG LAST FULLY LICENCED :D

[Adriano9966]

Thank you all for your kind comments .I will be going to Belgium this summer so I still need to work out what I'm taking in the way of antennas. However I hope to chat to a large number of you from over there all being well .Now that I have the full call I will also apply for the N.O.V on 5mhz so thats somewhere else I could meet a few forum members no doubt

best wishes to everyone on the forum .........lets have a great summer Adrian

[MW0SWA]

Congrats mate.
Did you do anything else to prepare apart from reading the advance study book?

[Adriano9966]

Thanks.
My advice is to read the book because most of the questions are based on it .I read the book a lot...... possibly 5 times in total but I became obsessed with understanding as much of the material as my poor brain would allow me too.I found the practice questions on ham tests online very useful but be careful not to just learn the answers and try hard to understand the questions .There are also some practice questions that you can download from the RSGB site. Do try some foreign practice exams eg Australia/USA/etc as this will also help you to understand the material .I found that by having the answer I could use this to figure out how the formula works.

I attended a twelve week course with our club tutor(2 hours per week) and we tried to cover all the material we could from the book.... there were three of us on the course and we all felt frankly a bit confused by it all but we all passed .

You will probably find you are good in some areas and weak in others so it makes sense to focus on the weak areas.

remember licencing and operating practices amount to 14 questions and EMC is a further 8 antennas and feeders is 5 so if you can get all of those right that is 27 already correct...... you have 25 questions on transmitters receivers .
lastly use all the material you can find including any old books from the original RAE oh and do buy the exams tips and secrets book available from the RSGB bookshop

hope that helps and good luck Adrian

[MW0SWA]

Ok cheers Adrian.

My advanced distant learning course starts july 6th and exam is december 6th.
So i dare say i shall be picking at your brains over next few months if thats ok.

Cheers pal

[Adriano9966]

sure !!! happy to help out if I can

another tip...... it really helps if you learn the exponent notation of numbers as this will make calculations easier ....... or if not just buy a scientific calculator jus joking

I hope I can be of some help

[ChrisCSL]

sure !!! happy to help out if I can

another tip...... it really helps if you learn the exponent notation of numbers as this will make calculations easier ....... or if not just buy a scientific calculator jus joking

I hope I can be of some help

No need to joke really. It works.

I punch all the noughts in too. Powers are fine, but with noughts I can 'see' it and think it.

Just count in your head ... Ten, 100, 1000, 10,000. 100,000, a million, ten million, a hundred million, a billion and so on.

Mega, Kilo ... 0 ... Mili, Micro, Pico. Just go to 'scientific', punch the noughts in, and you really can't go wrong.

K.I.S.S.

[Adriano9966]

indeed .I am pretty good at calculating large numbers too

but you do need a scientific calculator for the exam in my view

[MW0SWA]

Ahh no....maths
My head is hurting already.
How the hell will i manage!!

[M0MTH]

Congrats

[kr0ne]

Top job Adrian... congratulations fella!

[porky.69]

very well done adrian great news mate

[Jon_D]

At last Adrian well done indeed. Now how about the Morse. I am always around 7.030 or thereabouts if you want some practise. I can even send slower than 20wpm if you want ....
The hobby is now just opening up for you, so many avenues, so many different directions which you can now choose. I know that many readers of this forum will take heart from your example.

[Adriano9966]

Thanks Jon I most probably will get around to learning morse as well ..34 years late but better late than never ! QRP is my bag so I want to do more things with it and that should include a bit of morse and perhaps constructing a few kits

[northern35s]

Just seen your signature in another thread, a genuine congratulations from me, I look forward to speaking to you when you're abroad