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Amateur Radio exam date approaching

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    #32
    pixbyjohn
    Registered Users Posts: 6,250 ✭✭✭pixbyjohn


    eth0 wrote: »
    How did the ould exam go for everyone who done them this year? I passed em anyway, didn't have a whole lot of time to study for them but still scraped by

    Congrats


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    #33
    bauderline
    Registered Users Posts: 898 ✭✭✭bauderline


    eth0 wrote: »
    How did the ould exam go for everyone who done them this year? I passed em anyway, didn't have a whole lot of time to study for them but still scraped by

    Can I ask what materials you used to study ? Anything in particular you found good ?

    I am sitting the exam in October, have found some good stuff using the IRTS links...

    P.


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    #34
    brownmini
    Registered Users Posts: 177 ✭✭brownmini


    bauderline wrote: »
    Can I ask what materials you used to study ?
    Anything in particular you found good ?
    I am sitting the exam in October, have found some good stuff using the IRTS links...
    P.

    Excellent question.
    I hope you get plenty of answers from around the country sharing the
    methods of learning the same subject so that you and many others who
    wish to study in the future (next exam onwards) can see what ways &
    methods are out there to study as part of a class, group or single.

    73


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    #35
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    bauderline wrote: »
    Can I ask what materials you used to study ? Anything in particular you found good ?

    I am sitting the exam in October, have found some good stuff using the IRTS links...

    P.

    That is mostly what I used, most of the technical stuff I knew already (except for the stubs and baluns which I still know very little about and a couple other things). I have a few pages on propogation which I can send to you but there might only be one question on that.

    This wiki article explains the 'D-Layer' question or similar that comes up fairly well.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionosphere

    Have a good look over the IARU R1 band plans, there will be a good few questions on the peculiarities of this. Secondary allocation, contest allowed. A couple of questions if you are lucky at the start of the exam you can guage by the most politically correct sounding answer, but still better if you know it.

    There will be a couple of questions on inductors/capacitors/resistors in parallel and in series. They are handy questions just 2 simple formulas for them.


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    #36
    Felim_Doyle
    Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Felim_Doyle


    bauderline wrote: »
    Can I ask what materials you used to study ? Anything in particular you found good ?

    I am sitting the exam in October, have found some good stuff using the IRTS links...

    P.
    Can you post those links here please? Are there examples of past papers available?

    I sat and passed the exam thirty years ago but never collected my licence! I'm hoping Derek O'Reilly still has my paperwork in the ComReg archives. I'm interested in the exam for my wife although I may have to re-sit it myself.


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