Foundation Exam Question
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Foundation Exam Question
I've been doing mock exams on hamtests.co.uk and came across this one which I got wrong. Surely the band plans aren't just a "gentlemen's agreement"?
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Re: Foundation Exam Question
Not to be confused with the allocated bands, but the plans are just that. Generally bleeps one end and shouting the other.
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Ok, back to page one for me then. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with a dunce hat on...
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I smiled for another reason - in my examining/education roles one of the current blacklisted terms is "Gentlemen's Agreement" - believe it or not it is considered to be gender insensitive language and along with other stupid ones, like cameraman - unacceptable in an official document.
The band plans are just a sensible way to avoid problems, if the CW people all work in one section, SSB in another, and repeaters in another. Technically, you could transmit and have a conversation on S20 and stay there, and you could even do it on a repeater output. You'd upset people, but you can't lose your license for being a pain in the bum.
The band plans are just a sensible way to avoid problems, if the CW people all work in one section, SSB in another, and repeaters in another. Technically, you could transmit and have a conversation on S20 and stay there, and you could even do it on a repeater output. You'd upset people, but you can't lose your license for being a pain in the bum.
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I think I was getting confused with the allocated bands as Tigersaw said. I've been doing really well in most of the mock exams I've done, and I think you get over confident and can miss things such as reading 10Mv as 10mv. Lesson learnt.
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Questions are only easy if the answer is known, no need for the dunce hat or corner sitting.sickboy wrote:Ok, back to page one for me then. If anyone needs me I'll be sitting in the corner with a dunce hat on...
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I found that the 'hamtests' website chucked up some weird and repetitive questions.... although on this occasion they are correct.
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Re: Foundation Exam Question
Hope this is not off topic but isnt S20 now V40
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Not for old gits like me it isn't .liner trope wrote:Hope this is not off topic but isnt S20 now V40
Most just say the actual frequency anyway. Why learn another set of numbers when you can just read the display?
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No, that comes in a tin and you spray it on bicycle chains..liner trope wrote:Hope this is not off topic but isnt S20 now V40
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Re: Foundation Exam Question
I realise I am going to regret asking this, but has the S numbers really changed into V numbers? I realise I am probably very out of date, but is this just like marine band - when they stuck in the extra set of numbers. If so - I have never ever heard of this?
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I thought V40 was a Volvo. Yes 'they' tried to re-designate the plan, but as discussed earlier in the thread, 'we' can use the allocation pretty much how we like. I still use feet and inches because its a perfectly good unit of measurement, if everyone else wants to use metres then so be it.
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Pardon me, but what radar antenna is that in your avatar... it looks familiar???Tigersaw wrote:I thought V40 was a Volvo. Yes 'they' tried to re-designate the plan, but as discussed earlier in the thread, 'we' can use the allocation pretty much how we like. I still use feet and inches because its a perfectly good unit of measurement, if everyone else wants to use metres then so be it.
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