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  1. 12-17-2011, 12:50 PM #1
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    I'm Doing The Happy Dance!

    Went down this morning to the York County Amateur Radio Society in Rock Hill, SC (not my home club) and took and PASSED Element 4 to upgrade to Amateur Extra so...

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    What a relief when the VE's told me I had passed!

    It wasn't until I found this forum that I really got active in amateur radio. I know that many if not all of you will find that hard to believe since I don't post much :) but I do enjoy reading your posts and gleaning as much as I can from them.

    I was first licensed in 2008 and stayed just on the local repeaters with an HT. Didn't start getting serious about really learning more until May 2010. I upgraded to General in Feb. 2011 and got my first HF rig and have really been enjoying HF and PSK-31. Finally found time and motivation to study and woohoo... I did it. My next goal is to learn CW. I'd also like to become a VE.

    Thanks for letting me "toot my own horn" for a bit. I'm still bouncing off the walls at having passed and wanted to share
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  2. 12-17-2011, 12:54 PM #2
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    Let me be the first to congratulate you to the promotion to Extra!!

    Now you belong to the old coots then..... have fun :)
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  3. 12-17-2011, 12:56 PM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ4FEL View Post
    Went down this morning to the York County Amateur Radio Society in Rock Hill, SC (not my home club) and took and PASSED Element 4 to upgrade to Amateur Extra so...

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    What a relief when the VE's told me I had passed!

    It wasn't until I found this forum that I really got active in amateur radio. I know that many if not all of you will find that hard to believe since I don't post much :) but I do enjoy reading your posts and gleaning as much as I can from them.

    I was first licensed in 2008 and stayed just on the local repeaters with an HT. Didn't start getting serious about really learning more until May 2010. I upgraded to General in Feb. 2011 and got my first HF rig and have really been enjoying HF and PSK-31. Finally found time and motivation to study and woohoo... I did it. My next goal is to learn CW. I'd also like to become a VE.

    Thanks for letting me "toot my own horn" for a bit. I'm still bouncing off the walls at having passed and wanted to share
    Awesome! Yes, do the VE thing, it's very rewarding, especially if you get hooked up with a good group.

    Congratulations on the upgrade! Now that's all behind you. It took me 19 months to advance from Technician (the no-code variety we had in 1992) to Extra. I got locked up on the code at the 13 wpm barrier.

    It's very pleasing to hear you gained something from the forum here. The group here is very good about helping without being judgmental, but the amateur radio related forums sure could use a little more activity. I think the political forum sucks all the oxygen outta the room sometimes ...

    Again, congratulations!
    QAnon / GOP Republicans mentally lack the necessary intelligence to even tell a decent lie (Ex: A cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles run a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired against former President Dotard dRUMPf during his term in office... Jewish space lasers, etc.). What in the hell makes anyone believe these melon heads can actually govern?
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  4. 12-17-2011, 12:56 PM #4
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    Congrats!

    That extra HF bandwidth is well worth the time it took to study. :)
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  5. 12-17-2011, 12:57 PM #5
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    i took gen and extra back in... well i forget it was sometime in 2011. I missed extra by 1. of course i didnt study for extra. became HF-less and never bothered to go on with getting extra. just gave up no point with no HF anyway.

    anyway congrats!
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  6. 12-17-2011, 12:59 PM #6
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    FB OM!

    (Studying for Element 4 right now myself)
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    FB OM!

    (Studying for Element 4 right now myself)
    Beryllium? One of the alkaline earth metals, atomic weight 9.012182. Sounds a little dull ...
    QAnon / GOP Republicans mentally lack the necessary intelligence to even tell a decent lie (Ex: A cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles run a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired against former President Dotard dRUMPf during his term in office... Jewish space lasers, etc.). What in the hell makes anyone believe these melon heads can actually govern?
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  8. 12-17-2011, 01:09 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by ad4mg View Post
    Beryllium? One of the alkaline earth metals, atomic weight 9.012182. Sounds a little dull ...
    But it becomes more interesting when alloyed with copper. Potentially poisonous, though—you don't want to inhale beryllium dust.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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  9. 12-17-2011, 01:00 PM #9
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    Hey! Great News! congrats...that's a good feeling, I remember it well.
    I called my dad when I got mine...he went all curmudgeon on me for a minute about snow, tall hills, then mean and ugly FCC people in a Federal building, and eventually worked his way around to congratulated me on my efforts.

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  10. 12-17-2011, 01:09 PM #10
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    Congratulations on the upgrade! Now the only thing you have to be extra careful of is transmitting out of band! Hence the title, Extra.
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