After about 6 weeks of study, today I sat my Technician, Standard, and Extra class exams all one after the other. And I passed. Now to see what callsign I receive. Be sitting my aussie regs exam soon and onwards to the advanced licence.
Showing posts with label Standard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Standard. Show all posts
Friday, February 19, 2021
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Back studying again with the Radio and Electronics School
It's been a long time and after many false starts I'm hitting the books again to work towards my Standard licence.
I've purchased the new Radio Theory Handbook by Ron Bertrand VK2DQ. I chose the kindle version as it is easier to lug around and hopefully a bit easier to sneak some opportunistic study time during the day.
And I have also signed up for the Standard licence course run by the Radio and Electronics School. This is the second time I've had a crack at this course but chose the multimedia download in the hope of being able to sneak some time and watch it on my ipad. Let's see if I can actually make it through this time and move up in class.
I've purchased the new Radio Theory Handbook by Ron Bertrand VK2DQ. I chose the kindle version as it is easier to lug around and hopefully a bit easier to sneak some opportunistic study time during the day.
And I have also signed up for the Standard licence course run by the Radio and Electronics School. This is the second time I've had a crack at this course but chose the multimedia download in the hope of being able to sneak some time and watch it on my ipad. Let's see if I can actually make it through this time and move up in class.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Annoying antennas and other updates
I had some problems last night with the antenna giving me a high SWR intermittently. It didn't seem to matter what I did or what rig I was using I was getting a reasonable SWR reading and then a high one. The antenna tuner was struggling bringing it into something usable and it switched back and forth for a while until I came to the conclusion that my 25 year old 11m vertical is due for retirement.....so I bought a new one. I gave Peter a call at Shockwave Antennas - http://shockwaveantennas.com/ - and after a quick chat settled on just replacing the Station Master with like for like. Some advice on tuning the antenna length for 10m and that was it. I'm looking forward to retiring the current vertical and putting up the new one, I also have a new connector coming and will dump about 5 inches of the RG213 in case I have some water in the coax. Hopefully the intermittent problems will disappear after that although...it is behaving itself really well at the moment. Doh!!!
Other items of note are that the LDG Z11 auto antenna tuner has arrived, gave it a quick test and it worked well. A bit noisy when cycling it's relays during a tune but nothing to worry about. It's about an inch smaller width-wise than the Dragon SS485H I'm looking to pair it with but no problems on depth. Should work well portable.
I also have another 3 antennas on the way: 1 Military HF antenna ~2.7 metres in length, a 10m dipole, and a super flexy antenna for my VX-7 handheld. Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) has bitten hard. I also have an old Kenwood 2 metre VHF rig on the way which I'll pop into the car to replace the scanner I have now returned to the shack.
The Standard licence study material has arrived from the Radio and Electronics School (RES) - http://res.net.au/ - so it's time to knuckle down with the books and get to work on the passing the theory and reg exams.
And the last thing I have done is to install the HRD suite of Ham software. I'm not fussed on the remote control stuff but the HRD Logbook app certainly looks complete.
Other items of note are that the LDG Z11 auto antenna tuner has arrived, gave it a quick test and it worked well. A bit noisy when cycling it's relays during a tune but nothing to worry about. It's about an inch smaller width-wise than the Dragon SS485H I'm looking to pair it with but no problems on depth. Should work well portable.
I also have another 3 antennas on the way: 1 Military HF antenna ~2.7 metres in length, a 10m dipole, and a super flexy antenna for my VX-7 handheld. Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS) has bitten hard. I also have an old Kenwood 2 metre VHF rig on the way which I'll pop into the car to replace the scanner I have now returned to the shack.
The Standard licence study material has arrived from the Radio and Electronics School (RES) - http://res.net.au/ - so it's time to knuckle down with the books and get to work on the passing the theory and reg exams.
And the last thing I have done is to install the HRD suite of Ham software. I'm not fussed on the remote control stuff but the HRD Logbook app certainly looks complete.
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