so someone has uh just sent me this link it's on the Essex ham it's probably on a few sites
and this is the news that you can go from Zero to Hero overnight effectively as amateur radio
straight to the 400 watt limit um called a director Full all right I'll put all these
links in the description if you want to have a look this is aimed and it specifically says
for people who already have a solid knowledge of electronics and or RF but what they want to
do is make sure that they know what the rules and regulations are okay so you might understand that
if you you know put these two wires on your tongue it'll blow your face off that's fine but you need
to know what the rules and regulations are in the license conditions and that so there is 12
questions on license conditions and six questions on operating practices that's
18 questions and then there is another one Twos for another 40-ish questions or whatever
on the technical aspects of you know the electronics stuff you will have to learn if
you know nothing about ham radio is propagation oh safety you'll you'll you'll go through
measurement the construction you'll go through so electromagnetic compatibility propagation feeders
transmitters so there's a little bit you might have to learn unless you've come straight out like
the Royal signals and you were you know do an HF stuff then but if you are a technical technically
competent person and you know you've got a degree in electronics and you are in the electronics
business you'll be able to go straight to director Full and it's a 77.7 pass Mark okay so you can get
33 23 questions out of 100 wrong and you'll still get your ticket so it's just important
to get that out there if you're in the UK and you want to go straight and miss out because
at the moment we have we have the foundation and then we have intermediate and then the full and
there's been one two three that's 10 watts that's effectively 50 watts and that's uh 400 watts
and a few other things you can't do like 60 meter band and things like that and there were some
people who are extremely technically competent who just don't get the time and inclination to go
through all this baloney they want to go straight just give me the exam man I'll pass it you know
and they said in fact the business owner next to me Paul uh you know he could you know he owns an
electronics company do really really complicated things to an RF and electronics and everything
he'd probably just read the syllabus and take the exam and pass it's aimed at people like
that but anyway if you're that way inclined I mean effectively I did this I went I mean
I was actually M3 MCX but I just you know it was like taking a CB exam to
be honest the foundation exam is easy this is like the old Rae the radio amateur exam
which I took because I missed out intermediate I went straight to full from M3 I took the last ever
Ras it so happened because I couldn't be bothered hanging around doing all this stuff that's one of
them I guess all right so good news if you know someone that this would apply to uh share this
this link I'll put the link where you can hit the share button I think I'm sure you'll work it out
but there is a 42-page syllabus again I'll put this syllabus
um in the description below here okay all right so it might be interesting for somebody hey okay
by the way ignore the comments if you're reading this a few days after this is launched there'll be
people down on the comments the the note the naysayers the the do-gooders the the trolls
and all that telling you that uh it's not the same in their day they had to
rip right 400 pages in longhand and uh whatever the world's move to you
people the world's moved on you can go away right we'll take YouTube off
you this is for the modern people in the world right all the best now bye for now