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Wow! I just managed to get a decent pass at full level. As I said to the invigilator at the end, "I'm going to start second-guessing myself so I'm just going to hit submit"! After having bought the Exam Secrets book and completing all questions and the mock within, and the threee mocks on the [&hell...

You know that thing where you decide "do or not"? Well, I did. I was going round in loops on some areas and thought I'd never get my head round things. So I decided, in my infinite, er, wisdom, to give myself a deadline. So I booked the exam... It's booked for 29th November, just […]...

I sometimes passivley scan through Private Mobile Radio (PMR446) channels and am surprised at how many stations I can hear. Chances are, you've bought some PMR446 licence-free radios and have charged them up, picked a channel and started using them. The issue here is that ANYONE in range can listen ...

Well, this morning I took, and passed, my intermediate exam, less than a month after completing my foundation level. And finally my full licence manual arrived so I can catch up a little on the full course. Last night was a 2-hour session going over the licence conditions and operating techniques. N...

I took my foundation exam on September 23rd. I received my certificate on the 30th and obtained my M7KCH callsign the same day. Not content, I have decided to book my intermediate exam which is on October 17th. Hopefully I'll pass, which means that my M7KCH callsign will be changing! AND, not conten...

It started as a self-test project; create my own antenna as an experiment in learning some basic theory and dusting off some hand skills. I started off with the following main components: In addition, I had an old outdoor heavy-duty junction box which I intended to cut up to make the vertical part f...