No code ham license

I found a test site that had a test scheduled in 1 week. I signed up for the test and started looking for study material. I am not about spending money on stuff unless I absolutely have too. I found a really good study guide here. This one is free! I started reading through this and was lost at first. It goes step by step through the study guide listed above. The video is just under an hour and a half long.

This was a turning point for my studies. I went through the study guide and this video once together. Then for the next two days I watched the video while driving to work and home again. I listened to the video 3 times and felt pretty comfortable in my knowledge.

I was ready to try some practice tests. I found a great site for practice tests, flash cards, and even the complete question pool. In order to get your technician license you must pass a question test out of the question pool. You are asked a certain number of questions from the various categories. The general license is probably the most used class. This allows you to use most of the HF high frequency bands.

With this license you can also use all the frequencies used by a technician. Where with the technician you can only communicate on the lower frequencies by Morse code, you can with the general license you can talk or send data through these.

The great thing about using the amateur band network is that the standard worldwide language is English. So if you are reading this you are set. No need to learn a different language to talk with other around the world. I have searched for a free study guide, but have not yet found one that is worth it. I have however found a very good YouTube video. It is broke up into 3 parts and each is hours long. They are extremely informative, but very easy to follow.

This is a very well put together guide. It has the same writer as the one that wrote the one for the technician license.

This license requires you to pass a question test as well out of a pool of questions. If you want to be able to use any frequency on the amateur radio network then this is the one for you.

ARRL offers resources to help you prepare. Learn More. All of the possible questions that may appear on the exam are published for you to review. While studying the Ham Radio License Manual, you may find that you need a bit more background to fully understand a topic. Find a license class offered in your local area. Find an in-person ham radio exam location in your area or schedule an online exam.

Online and in-person tests are given regularly. What form of ID do I need at an exam session? How do I pay for the exam? Advanced not available. The Advanced Class license became unavailable effective April 15th, , but existing Advance Class licensees have been grandfathered into their privileges and may renew their licenses. Small voice band segments, exclusive for Advanced and Amateur Extra class hams, are added in several bands as additional privileges.

No additional code test is required. The Amateur Extra Class license requires passing the Technician and General tests, plus another difficult written test.

For the trouble, the Extra Class ham gets exclusive privileges on some small segments in several code and voice bands. This may not seem like much, but when a band is crowded, the Extra has a bit more elbow room.

By David Sarnoff in April when the kid sat up all night copying the names of the survivors of the Titanic. The world of ham radio was shocked by my signal. I can just go to the store and buy some. I can just go to the story and buy furniture. For some people, fishing and learning how to make their own furniture is a lot more fun than just buying it. Just saying…. What you have said is true, as far as it goes. However, one great advantage of CW is the amazing ability to come through noise: if the discriminator is a human brain.

Another point: when things get dicey, you can almost always get a jury-rigged CW on the air. You had me going there for awhile. I totally believed it! After all, everything you read on the internet is true… I just got my license and was wondering if all that studying was for nothing! Any suggestions? My best advice for improving your Morse Code efficiency is to get on the air, early and often.

Find the guys with good fists and operating procedures and work them. Ham radio was on a decline. The rate of new hams was very low and the attrition rate was taking the numbers down even more. I understand the concern of older hams. I got a doctorate after computers were the norm. They felt new people should also. Computers made the process of writing a dissertation more tolerable and realistic.

Ham radio without code, simply followed what many other countries had already done by eliminating it in lieu of digital modes. Statistics now show that the ham radio hobby is climbing at an all time high.

Also, now that CW is not required, ham are learning it at a surprisingly high rate. So, old timers, do we have ham radio continue to grow and be healthy in numbers, or do we restrict it and watch it dwindle and die? Bills to protect it and innovations by manufacturers only exist if the populous is there to support it. Just look at the NRA as an example. I was scared of CW and put it off for a long time. I now have an Extra Class license. I was shocked when I found out years ago how the code was being eliminated as a form of communication.

I understand the advantage of digital satellite communications but there is a distinct need for the continuance of the morse code still, because of its reliability in case other communication modes fail.

With all the disruptive activity going on with foreign matters, it might behoove us to heighten and broaden the use of CW Morse Code again. Besides I welcomed the challenge. I was able to achieve a copy speed of 28 wpm in Radioman School. But the important thing is to bring it back. It just might be instrumental in saving our lives….

Lots of beeps and boops. Not too different than listening to R2D2 without captions or subtitles. There have been hams that have operated Morse Code by touch. They feel the vibrations of the dots and dashes. What do you think? I am in a type of PTSD state of mind because even though I got out in , I still long to hear and practice morse code.

Every time I hear anything similar to morse code I try to read it like the old days. I would love to prove my 28 wpm again just to see if I could impress someone in the hobby. That was when I gain a newfound respect for the capabilities of Ham Radio operators. Now I am just here reminiscing so I pulled up this site.

What can I say? I miss the code, too. I hope that some day I can get a job being a CW operator once again….