We held our second One-Day Tech Class yesterday, and I think I can claim success. Twelve folks signed up for the class, and eleven of them passed. This included current member Lisa Manthey and Candy Justyna, XYL of Ig, N0EFT.
Quite a few of the folks that passed learned about it via our local SkyWarn [...]

I can’t decide whether I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to blog much or whether I’m just slowing down. It’s probably a little of each. And doing so much creates so much blog fodder that it can be overwhelming. There’s so much to write about, you can’t figure out where to start.
So, [...]

For the last several months, I’ve been working with some kids at Scarlett Middle School here in Ann Arbor, teaching them about electronics and amateur radio. For a number of reasons—that I won’t go into just yet—I haven’t been as successful as I was hoping to be.
Dismayed by my lack of success, I went to [...]

About a month ago, the 2008 version of my General Class license course got started. We’re using the ARRL General Class License Manual as the text, but it’s really not the best text for those that might be having trouble understanding some of the basic concepts.
Concidentally, a thread just got started on the Flying Pigs [...]

Last July, the National Council of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) released a new question pool for General Class license examinations. Shortly after, the ARRL (and others) came out with a new license manual. That meant, of course, that I had to come up with a new outline for my General Class license course.
The new outline [...]

I frequently get e-mails and comments here on the blog about my No-Nonsense Technician and General Class study guides. I thank everyone for the kind words they have had to say about them.
They frequently conclude with the question, “Now, when are you going to do an Extra Class study guide”? Unfortunately, I often respond, there’s [...]

No news here. I’m just using this page to consolidate information about the two study guides I’ve written:

Technician Class—The No-Nonsense, No-Code Technician Class License Study Guide is based on a method developed by Bruce W8BBS. What he did for the earlier question pool is to rephrase each question in the form of a statement and [...]

From the 8/10/07 ARRL Letter:
==> 2007 ARRL Teachers Institutes Reach 45 Schools
Forty-eight teachers representing 45 schools from around the country attended the 2007 ARRL Teachers Institutes, held this summer in Rocklin, California, Spokane, Washington and at ARRL Headquarters in Newington. Each class of 12, ranging from pre-school teachers to college professors, got the opportunity to [...]

Eleven folks attended ARROW’s first one-day Tech class on Saturday, July 28, with seven passing the test. They include:

KD8GTR - Chuck Graham
KD8GTS - Ty Graham
KD8GTT - Fern Katz
KD8GTU - Rachel Katz
KD8GTV - Naomi Katz
KD8GTW - Lorie Zupan

CONGRATULATIONS!
There was also another gentleman who passed the test, but I couldn’t find his new callsign in the [...]

There are a bunch of websites where you can take practice tests online. I’ve just learned about another one, although the guy behind this site, KB0MGA, is quick to point out that this is NOT “just another exam site.” He’s right, it isn’t.
The difference between KB0MGA Practice Exams and the practice tests on QRZ.Com and [...]