Subj : Test
To   : Craig Healy
From : Russell Tiedt
Date : Tue Apr 03 2001 01:29 pm

Hi Craig,

 CH> Glad to have you around!

 ->> ..maybe I will get off my butt
 ->> and get myself a ticket, 5 words a minute morse, should not be too
 ->> difficult..

 CH> Nope.  Should be able to get that down in a short time.  I don't know 
 CH> if
 CH> the ARRL has web-based code practice, but there are many programs.  
 CH> W1AW
 CH> code practice would probably be quite difficult to receive 
 CH> consistently
 CH> in ZA-land.

Code practice as in recieved over the air is not a possibility as I currently 
don't have any equipment. But I do have thee audio tape cassettes for morse 
code practice, which I have not had time to use recently as I am busy 
rebuilding my system after WINNT and a Linux gotha I missed trashed all my HDD 
partions, a sorry state of affairs, but as they say in the classics, shit 
happens. :-((

 CH> I don't know the testing regimen, but 5wpm shouldn't be hard.  Entry
 CH> level theory testing also shouldn't be hard, probably a fair amount
 CH> of rote memorizing of band limits and the like.

I believe that one has to send at 5wpm for three minutes and recieve a message 
correctly sent a 5wpm over a 5 minute interval.

Over the years I have aquired enough manuals for the learning part, now just 
need to get an updated version of the new Laws of the Land regulating Ham Radio 
in ZA land. These have changed since I last looked into getting a HAM Radio 
Lisence.

Russell

  

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