The Fast Track to Your Extra Class Ham Radio License
The Fast Track to Your Extra Class Ham Radio License
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Overview
Memorizing answers is hard -- and boring. Learning is easy!
If you've made the decision to open up your ham radio world by going for the Extra Class License, great! The latest edition of the Extra class exam is certainly challenging. The question bank includes over 600 questions, some 25% of which are new or revised since the last edition.
The Fast Track to Your Extra Class Ham Radio License explains the reasoning and technology behind each correct answer on the exam so you'll understand and remember the subject matter. It's a complete learning system; books, audio, and the fast track website with custom-made practice exams that integrate with the chapters in the book and audiobook. There are also teaching videos on the site.
Created by an experienced ham and adult educator, it's like having your own, patient, experienced, good-humored mentor for the exam. (One reason Michael is a frequent presenter at major ham conventions.)
To get your Extra Class license you must pass a multiple-choice test. The Extra license test consists of 50 questions drawn from a pool of 603. Memorizing the answers to 603 disconnected questions is difficult, but The Fast Track makes getting your upgrade easier by explaining the logic behind each correct answer.
It's simple: When you understand the material, and you have a context for the material, you remember the answers and pass the test. We might even have a little fun along the way. (This may be the only amateur radio book to teach an astronomical concept with a nacho cheese analogy.)
* Includes every possible question and every answer
* Correct answers clearly marked in bold
* Precise instructions for how to locate a testing session, how to prepare, and even what to bring -- and what not to bring -- to the test.
* All technical topics explained in clear, plain language. The Kindle and print editions include over 250 illustrations to support your learning.
* Step-by-step instructions to solve all the math problems
* Test-taking strategies
* Hints to easily solve many questions and avoid the traps in the test
* Written in "learning order", not just the order of the official question bank, which is only a "warehouse" of questions and was never designed to teach anyone anything.
* Chapter summaries drive home the exam-conquering points to remember from each chapter.
* Complete subject and question index (print edition).
* Incorporates the exclusive Fast Track study plan. We don't just present the material, we teach you the most effective way to learn it and we provide the tools to implement the plan.
* Covers every question that will be used until July 1, 2028.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940167714328 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Michael Burnette, AF7KB |
| Publication date: | 05/30/2024 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 18 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
About the Author
Michael Burnette, AF7KB, started playing with radios at age 8 when he found the plans for a crystal radio set in a comic book and wasted a half roll of toilet paper to get the cardboard tube for a coil form. That radio failed as a practical appliance when it proved to only receive high-power stations that were less than one city block away.
This promising beginning blossomed into an equally auspicious 25 year career annoying the public as a commercial broadcaster where he did a bit of everything from being a DJ to serving as a vice president and general manager with Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS/Infinity.)
By 1989 he owned his own stations in Bend, Oregon, which afforded him abundant opportunities to repair those stations, often in the middle of the night in a snowstorm.
In 1992, Burnette left the radio business behind, despite absolutely no clamor for him to stay, and took to traveling the world designing and delivering experiential learning seminars on leadership, management, communications, and building relationships.
He has trained people across the US and in Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Finland, Greece, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Russia. In addition to his public and corporate trainings, he has been a National Ski Patroller, a Certified Professional Ski Instructor, a Certified In-Line Skating Instructor, a big-rig driving instructor, and a Certified Firewalk Instructor. (Yes, he can teach you how to walk on fire. Really.)
These days he makes his home in the Seattle, WA area with his wife, Kerry (KG7NVJ) and a singularly unproductive cat.
He is still playing with radios.
Kerry Burnette, Call Sign KC7YL, co-writes ham radio books with husband, Michael Burnette,Call Sign AF7KB. She got interested in Ham Radio when Michael was on the road trucking across the country. He was gone five week and then home for five days. Missing him terribly, she thought getting her ham radio license would be a great way to stay connected. After reading other published material on the subject, she asked Michael for help. He put together some notes for her and she got her Technician ticket. He decided to publish those notes and the rest is history! After editing, proofing and studying Michael's other Fast Track Ham Radio License Manuals, she went on to obtain her General and Extra Class tickets. Kerry currently enjoys being net control for both the YL Net and the Sunday Evening Net for her ham radio club.