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Two Self-Study Guides

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 then organize the statments to make them readable. Bruce was unable to update his manual for the question pool that went into effect in July 2006, so he gave me permission to do it.
General Class—The No-Nonsense, General Class License Study Guide. This is the study guide for those taking the General Class license exam after July 1, 2007. It follows the same format as the Technician Class Study Guide. Note, though, that there are more questions in this pool, and in general, the questions are more technical than the Tech Class, so be prepared to study longer and harder than you did for the Tech test.

Please download these study guides and use them. I’d be interested in any comments, questions, compliments, or complaints that you have. E-mail me!

UPDATE 1/20/08
I just updated the Technician Class Study Guide. It’s nothing earth-shattering—I finally got around to updating the introduction to reflect the rules changes that occurred when they eliminated the Morse Code test.

UPDATE 4/14/08

THE TECH STUDY GUIDE IS NOW AVAILABLE ALREADY PRINTED!

For $12.95 (plus shipping) you can now order a printed version of my study guide. Just click on the cover to order.

By: Dan KB6NU | 2007/09/08 | Classes/Testing - Elmering - Everything Else | Trackback | Comments [RSS 2.0]

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Ronny

Comment by Ronny | 2007/09/09 at 22:46:23

Dan,

As promised, last week I handed out your Tech Study Guide to the 20 students in my Amateur Radio elective class. I am taking the class in a self-study direction with “overview” by me. With quizzes to keep them honest, I hope to cover the basics pretty quickly, thus allowing the students plenty of time to get into hands-on electronics.

I will be using “100-in-1″ Science kits to allow the students to build basic circuits and discover how components work. Afterward, we will hopefully move toward breadboarding circuits. We’ll see how far we get…

As for learning electronic theory, I found that the visuals and info. from the “Electronics” section at http://www.electronicstheory,com seem to be pretty good.

I will also be using your General Study Guide, so I’ll let you know if I find any typos or portions in either of the Guides that seem to confuse teenagers. Again, thanks for taking the time to produce materials for the next generation.

By the way, I’m passing out Morse Code CDs tomorrow. Some of the kids are psyched to learn Code. Maybe we can arrange a “final” with my students having to work you using CW and obtain some information (e.g. favorite color, name of pet, etc..).

73 from Austin, Texas.

Ronny, KC5EES
Dan KB6NU

Comment by Dan KB6NU | 2007/09/10 at 16:23:02

Hi, Ronny.

Very cool. I’m up for working your students. I think I’ll have to get my 20m vertical back up in the air first, but that shouldn’t be a problem.

73, Dan
Shawn KB8UDE

Comment by Shawn KB8UDE | 2008/01/03 at 23:16:27

Loved the General guide. Got my upgrade this summer using it. Well, mostly. Only read the first few chapters and did the rest of the test with common sense and experience. I will definitely need the guide for my Extra though, so get writing!
Dan KB6NU

Comment by Dan KB6NU | 2008/01/04 at 10:45:37

Thanks for your comments, Shawn. Unfortunately, I don’t think there will be a No Nonsense Guide for the Extra Class license examination. There are just too many questions, and I just don’t have enough time to devote to it. The only way it might be possible is if I could enlist the help of some other folks to write some of the sections. Then, i could edit them and put it all together.

Hmmmmmm. The more I think about this, the more I like the idea. Anyone want to volunteer??

btw, I checked out your your picture on QRZ.Com. What a great looking station!
Jack KZ3Z

Comment by Jack KZ3Z | 2008/03/26 at 19:27:28

Dan,
Shawn KB8UDE showed me your guide, I used it to help teach a class of Boy Scouts. Three of them got licensed, and I’m starting another class next week with about ten people this time, even going to have three parents taking it. Two of the new Scout Techs want to upgrade to General when the others try for Tech so they can stay ahead of their buddies.
Dan KB6NU

Comment by Dan KB6NU | 2008/03/28 at 10:02:15

That’s great. Thanks for the feedback. Tell the scouts to download the General Class Study Guide when they get started on that.
Dan KB6NU

Comment by Dan KB6NU | 2008/03/28 at 17:49:31

Hi, Jack–

Thanks for the great feedback on my study guide. fyi, it’s going to be available very soon in a printed version. The cost will be $12, plus shipping. If you think you might be interested in this, let me know, and I’ll e-mail you when it’s ready. If not, feel free to continue to use the free version on my website.

73, Dan
Jon KG4SVF (soon N0SVD)

Comment by Jon KG4SVF (soon N0SVD) | 2008/04/21 at 06:45:09

Dan,

Your study guides seem to have garnered much praise. I’m starting to study for my General (so that a friend and I can study for Extra this summer while she’s off from school). I might be up for working on a rephrased-type guide such as this for Extra - we’ll see how it goes. Let me pass my General first and I’ll let you know :)

Hopefully sometime in the next month, I’ll go /AG.

73, Jon
Ed Culbertson

Comment by Ed Culbertson | 2008/07/04 at 01:36:22

Thanks for the general study guide. Got it done on 6/7/08!!
Dan KB6NU

Comment by Dan KB6NU | 2008/07/04 at 12:50:50

Excellent. Congratulations!

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