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Well that's just YOU and YOUR desires. Someone else that writes the exam does need to know that because he has different interests than you do. He actually wants to learn how to build small stuff like shack accessories and repair stuff and is not content being an appliance operator. Some people have no problem with spending $50 for a cable to connect their radio to the computer while others spend $10 and a half hour making one. Others spend over $150 for a sound card interface while others spend $5 and make two cables that do the same thing.Amateur radio is the one and only radio service that allows the operator to make transmitter adjustments of a technical nature as well as build gear to use on the air and as such the operator has an obligation to prove he is capable of doing so properly. I only wish the exams had MORE questions of a technical nature. As for operating procedures etc. you can listen and learn, use common sense,pick up a book or all of the above. Everyone has different expectations and desires of what THEY want from amateur radio and you cannot have different exams for different people.The exams today are already a joke compared to what they used to be so be happy that you are not writing it 30-40 years ago or even 20 years. You would not have liked then if you don't like it now.

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 217755" data-attributes="member: 39"><p>Well that&#039;s just YOU and YOUR desires. Someone else that writes the exam does need to know that because he has different interests than you do. He actually wants to learn how to build small stuff like shack accessories and repair stuff and is not content being an appliance operator. Some people have no problem with spending $50 for a cable to connect their radio to the computer while others spend $10 and a half hour making one. Others spend over $150 for a sound card interface while others spend $5 and make two cables that do the same thing.Amateur radio is the one and only radio service that allows the operator to make transmitter adjustments of a technical nature as well as build gear to use on the air and as such the operator has an obligation to prove he is capable of doing so properly. I only wish the exams had MORE questions of a technical nature. As for operating procedures etc. you can listen and learn, use common sense,pick up a book or all of the above.&nbsp; Everyone has different expectations and desires of what THEY want from amateur radio and you cannot have different exams for different people.The exams today are already a joke compared to what they used to be so be happy that you are not writing it 30-40 years ago or even 20 years. You would not have liked then if you don&#039;t like it now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 217755, member: 39"] Well that's just YOU and YOUR desires. Someone else that writes the exam does need to know that because he has different interests than you do. He actually wants to learn how to build small stuff like shack accessories and repair stuff and is not content being an appliance operator. Some people have no problem with spending $50 for a cable to connect their radio to the computer while others spend $10 and a half hour making one. Others spend over $150 for a sound card interface while others spend $5 and make two cables that do the same thing.Amateur radio is the one and only radio service that allows the operator to make transmitter adjustments of a technical nature as well as build gear to use on the air and as such the operator has an obligation to prove he is capable of doing so properly. I only wish the exams had MORE questions of a technical nature. As for operating procedures etc. you can listen and learn, use common sense,pick up a book or all of the above. Everyone has different expectations and desires of what THEY want from amateur radio and you cannot have different exams for different people.The exams today are already a joke compared to what they used to be so be happy that you are not writing it 30-40 years ago or even 20 years. You would not have liked then if you don't like it now. [/QUOTE]

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