Not to toot my own horn—at least not too much—but yesterday we scored 100%! That is to say that everyone in our latest One-Day Tech Class at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum passed the test. 17 people attended the class and took the test, including one 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl.
To be honest, I [...]

Jack Dunigan, 5X7JD, is my first guest blogger. He is the Senior Management Leader of Aidchild, Inc., a project providing a home for orphans living with AIDS in Uganda. His ham radio blog is called Ham Radio Safari. Thanks, Jack!
I came to Uganda in October from the the U.S. Virgin Islands in the [...]

I really hate it when people ask me, “Ham radio? Do people still do that?” Yes, of course, we still do that. Not only that, ham radio is growing. Below, is the latest press release from the ARRL. Now, granted, this release does hype up the statistics, but the facts are there. Almost double [...]

From arrl.org:
NCVEC Releases New Technician Class Question Pool (Jan 4, 2010) — The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) released the new Technician class (Element 2) question pool on Monday, January 4. This new question pool will become effective for all examinations administered on or after July 1, [...]

QST de W1AW
Special Bulletin 12 ARLX012
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT November 19, 2009
To all radio amateurs
SB SPCL ARL ARLX012
ARLX012 NCVEC to Release New Technician Question Pool to Public in
January 2010
The Question Pool Committee (QPC) of the National Conference of
Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) is due to release the new
Technician class (Element 2) question pool [...]

On the HamRadioHelpGroup mailing list, a fellow preparing for the Extra exam wrote:
I’ve been studying for the Extra class exam and I realized that I need a new calculator. I haven’t owned a scientific calculator in years. There are so many to choose from these days. Which brands/models do you recommend? I used to own [...]

As many of you know, I teach One-Day Tech classes. At the start of each class, I go over the following to help focus students on what to keep in mind when taking the test.
Technical Topics
For the Tech test, the focus is on rules and safety. It is not very technical. Having said that, there [...]

Last summer, we had some discussion about doing an Extra Class study guide, similar to my No-Nonsense Tech and General Class study guides. I kinda dropped the ball on that, being really busy with other things. I’m sorry about that.
In the meantime, I’ve been doing some thinking about how to approach this, and I’m going [...]

After the class yesterday, Scott, W1BIC, mentioned that now what we need is a one-day General class. I’ve always been more skeptical about doing a cram session for the General Class exam, but after batting the idea around a little, I think that there might be a way to do this. The idea wouldn’t be [...]

Yesterday, Bruce, KD8APB, and I taught yet another One-Day Tech Class. This time, nine of the twelve students passed.
One of the students that failed was a ten- or eleven-year-old boy who failed by only one or two questions. He says that he plans to take the test again at a regularly-scheduled test session tomorrow. [...]