I sat down and took some on-line amateur licensing exams, just for kicks. Well, I passed the Tech with flying colors. I think I missed one question, and that was from not reading the question correctly. The General was a bit harder. Let’s just say that I passed … and not by a great margin. The Extra was another story, however. I missed 16 questions, and the maximum allowed is 13 … ABYSMAL FAILURE!!! And … I just flat-out guessed at some of the answers I got right. It was embarrassing!
So, the moral of this story is … don’t get too smug if you’ve been licensed for a long time. The knowledge set has really changed since I tested for Extra in 1993. Lots more satellite and solid state theory than I remember. And I still .work full-time in the world of radio communications!
You know what this is going to do, don’t you? It’s going to drive me to spend some time boning up on Extra-class theory. I guess that’s a good thing, isn’t it?
73 de Dick N4BC