External sound card advice needed to attach to, K3

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

Joe makes a good point.

I was asked by a club to teach a new hams class in preparation for the
license exam.   I inquired as to what I would be teaching. The answer
came back "the test!".     No thank you, if I can't teach Ohms law, how
to cut a 1/2 wave dipole, and operating procedure, I'll just stay under
my rock.   I've been licensed for 60 years and had my First Class Radio
Telephone license before I obtained my ham license, that was while in
high school in 1960.  I guess that makes me an old f**t as well.

It seems today that every box of Cracker Jacks has an Extra Class
license included as a prize.

73

Bob, K4TAX


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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 21:28:39 -0500
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  > Bad form.  They should know - or be taught - better.

But there is no "teaching" ... give them a book with all the license
questions, let them memorize them and get a license without a CW exam
or test that amounts to anything - even for Amateur Extra these days.

ARRL is too busy promoting WinStink and other quasi commercial activity
to spend pages in QST and/or staff time at hamfest fora on good
operating practice for digital modes.

  > Bad form.  They should know - or be taught - better. Forgive me, I'm
  > and old f*** who's only been licensed 69 years.

You've got about 19 years on me but I don't feel like an old f***.
I do feel like someone trying to hold back the tide with a push broom.


73,

     ... Joe, W4TV


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[Bill Frantz]

I helped teach a number of ham crams for the our local
ARES/RACES group. We always included information about Ohm's
law, how to cut a 1/2 wave dipole, and operating procedures.
They're all on the tech test, and for many students it's a lot
easier to learn how to figure out the answer than it is to
remember which multiple-guess is correct.

Quick example: There is a question about how long a 1/4 wave
antenna is for 2M. We tell them that 40" is a good enough
conversion for a meter, so 2M is 80" and 1/4 or 80" is 20". The
correct answer on the test is 19" but the other 3 answers are
way wrong, so picking the closest answer works. We even get to
mention that the velocity of light in a wire is slower than it
is in free space, so 19" is the right answer.

What I find with students is that many are completely at sea
about how ham radio works in the practical sense of picking up a
microphone and making a contact. There's nothing like just doing it.

We would run a 2nd class a month after the ham cram and license
test. We would tell the students to bring their new radios and
we would get the local repeaters programmed into them. We would
then coach them in making some contacts with each other.

As weeks went by, we would encourage them to act as net control
for our weekly net, and then to act as net control for the
county net when it was our group's turn.

Again, like any student, spoon feed them at a rate such that
they can learn. It takes a lot of Elmering to make a ham.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 1/1/21 at 10:58 PM, [hidden email] (Bob McGraw) wrote:

>I was asked by a club to teach a new hams class in preparation
>for the license exam.   I inquired as to what I would be
>teaching. The answer came back "the test!".     No thank
>you, if I can't teach Ohms law, how to cut a 1/2 wave dipole,
>and operating procedure, I'll just stay under my rock.   I've
>been licensed for 60 years and had my First Class Radio
>Telephone license before I obtained my ham license, that was
>while in high school in 1960.  I guess that makes me an old
>f**t as well.
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