This is my second reply, I think AOU is fucking with me. I have my amateur extra.I took and passed all three tests in one sitting. Bad idea, I wished I had just passed my technician license and played around with vhf/uhf radios for a while. I get with other amateur extras and they immediately know just how stupid I am. I turned off my hf radios and am just focusing on my vhf/uhf radios. It’s an art, learning about radio propagation takes time. I jumped the gun. I needed to first learn about how radios broadcast, I’m still a complete moron on the hf airwaves. Yet I can legally broadcast there, those fellows are quick to make me feel like an idiot.
Oh, I took all FOUR tests at one time to get my Extra before they did away with the code test, you dirty No Code Extra.
It was only three tests but yeah, I feel kind of dirty about that, I bought a morse key, and a cd from ARRL. I found a really cool arduino kit that lets me hook my key to my iPad. I can identify all the letters of the alphabet now, but when I hear live transmissions I think to myself “that’s an A” 7 other letters have gone buy, doh! I’ll keep practicing.
My noise floor is really high where I live but I can hear those distant cw signals. I’m motivated to learn it.
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