Is there such a thing, some guy in El Gorah, Egypt a Yank no less tried to
sell my friend a copy of this, ok so him and I were a little game, we bought
the thing from him, guess its seems to be all the right answers for the
Advanced test,
Ummm... the correct answers for every question in each of the
licensing exam pools are posted on the ARRL web site. For example,
see
http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/tech2003.txt to view the complete
question pool for the Technician exam - you'll find the correct answer
for each question listed with the question's number.
The actual exams consist of a certain number of questions drawn from
each subelement of the question pools. A whole bunch of different
exams are prepared in advance. Certainly, the correct numerical
answer for each coded exam ought not to be available... the specific
set of questions drawn from the pool for each of the exam sheets is
supposed to be kept confidential by the VECs.
If the "cheat sheet" to which you are referring is simply the list of
questions, each question's four choices, and an indication of
which choice is correct, then this is (and by current intent is
_supposed_ to be) public knowledge. That's how the FCC has set things
up for quite a few years. No need to pay anyone for it - it's freely
available from the ARRL, from the FCC, and probably from numerous
other sites.
so my question is now how many of these things are there out
there, and how guys are for real, not some two bit cow-boy that knows
nothing about nothing. What happens when we need those guys in a emergency
and they don't know crap!!.
A fair number of people get their Tech license by going to a one-day
"cram course", memorizing the answers to all of the questions, and
then taking and passing the exam.
Those among them who are wise, will realize that they don't really
know much if anything more than they did when they started, and will
treat this as the _beginning_ of their study and learning experience
rather than the end of it. These are among the amateurs who you'll be
able to count upon in an emergency.
Some of the others may very well be useless under those conditions.
However, even those who truly study the material _before_ they take
and pass the exam, will almost certainly need (or at least benefit by)
additional study and experience if they are to be of real use in a
communications emergency. Passing traffic, working effectively in
open and directed nets, working with government agencies, etc. are
topics which the FCC exams barely touch upon. I've learned a lot more
about these things by spending time on my local ARES/RACES nets, and
taking the basic ARRL Emergency Communications course, than I ever did
in studying for my ticket.
Guys if you know of other cheat sheets out there, please send them this way,
I will do my level best to get them out.
My guess is that you'll have no luck at all attempting this.
--
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