Congrats!
Get some rest, you've earned it.
On Apr 9, 2016 5:28 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Congrats, Paul. Have a great rest of the weekend!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
> On 4/9/2016 3:52 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
>>
>> My best-laid plan for last night was to come home, have dinner, watch a
>> little TV, get to bed early, and then get up nice and refreshed for my
>> radio exam this morning.
>>
>> The yesterday afternoon I got a call from my boss at the casino - the
>> Friday night engineer had been in an accident, and needed to go in and
>> cover. He would get me a room at the hotel. I didn't have my blacks
(casino
>> sound guy uniform) or my sound-guy briefcase with me, so I had to get off
>> the train at 6:40, drive the 20 minutes back to my house, change clothes,
>> throw the shaving kit and a change of socks and undies into the backpack,
>> and drive to the casino to relieve my boss who got the first band
started.
>>
>> So, instead of sleeping I ended up mixing bands until 2:30AM, crawled to
my
>> hotel room after being awake for 20-1/2 hours, fell asleep at 3.
>>
>> Wake-up call at 0730 so I could shower, get dressed, and drive the 35
>> minutes back home to Valparaiso, swing through McFood for a McMuffin, and
>> get to the library by 9 for the exam session.
>>
>> Now, you're thinking, "Why didn't you just wave off and take it next
month?"
>>
>> Hell, no. I've spent the past week cramming, taking practice test after
>> practice test. My brain is in that mode NOW, and I don't want to go
>> through yet another month.
>>
>> I fill out the form, plunk down my $15, get my exam booklet and answer
>> sheet. 50 questions out of a total pool of 702. Need to get 37 of them
>> right to pass.
>>
>> Ahhh. Only four featuring math and formulas. One of them I'm sure I
know.
>>
>> I finish, turn in my answer sheet and exam booklet, sit down and wait for
>> the three examiners to check my answers and verify that they all agree
(FCC
>> rules for the volunteer examiner program).
>>
>> Hard to read their faces. Plus, I'm going on 4 hours of sleep after
being
>> awake for over 20.
>>
>> I passed. He said it twice, just be sure I heard.
>>
>> After 37 years of dreaming of this day, and a good 6 months of studying
>> advanced radio and electronics theory and hundreds of rules and regs, I
>> passed my Extra. (For those of you non-hams, or non-US hams, Extra is our
>> top class).
>>
>> I went home, told Sheri, crawled into bed, got a 90-minute nap, and now
I'm
>> working Rocks again until 10:30pm tonight....
>>
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