Tech ham radio license

It was all greek to me as well. The polar math was foreign. The website shows the formula and will show the calculations if you want it to. I had the app for months but could not make heads or tails of the math or circuits. I can 't say enough good things about the site, it keeps putting in the missed questions in to the question bank until you have answered it enough correctly. I sat down a couple of hours a night off and on and passed it on Tuesday.

 

Kudos for your perseverance!

 

You remind me of my Extra exam: I remember being annoyed when I got to the reactance questions, because after months of studying the Smith chart and practicing polar-rectangular conversions, I realized that the questions were worded in such a way that they could all be answered just by knowing the direction of the vector and Kirchoff's law.

Oh, well: learning is never wasted, and there are some mountains that are worth climbing just to prove you can.

Congratulations!

William Warren

 

I was fortunate getting into amateur radio when I was 32 yrs old. Cell phones were (and still are) expensive, my kids were young, and I made them get their tech licenses too. I got my general and extra when 5 wpm was still required.
I have a method for passing the written tests. I print off the question pool, highlight the correct answers in yellow, then read the questions and the correct answers only. I go through question pool two times, NEVER reading the wrong answers. Then take the test. You'll get high 90 to 100% pass. The secret is your mind is only used to seeing the correct answer. The correct answer will jump out at you during the test.

 

This was the same method I used for my General test, however if I didn't understand why the correct answer was the right choice I would Google the question and usually find a detailed description on the answer. I got 100/100.