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Assunto:  Re: SDF
De:       Ed Vance
Data:     Fri, 3 Apr 2026 12:45:56 -0500
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> On Thu  2-Apr-2026 12:13p, Ed Vance@1:2320/107.0 said to Rug Rat:

> I really enjoy RTTY, and SSTV...

> Advanced test, now there is another test I failed multiple times.

> My problem with the Advanced was the MATH, and the new Extra incorporated a
> lot of it.  The books just never did a good job of explaining the MATH!  They
> basically just feed it to you from a garden hose all at once, and I would
> just get lost in the formula.

> The W4EEY Online courses was the first material that could make it make any
> sense, as they showed you only the formula or operations needed to answer the
> question.  So taken as their seperate elements, I could see okay each of
> these fomulat represent this part of the big picture, but this question
> already gives me these values, I only need ONE formulae to solve for what
> they are asking and it is this....  

> I probbably could not pass the test today, as I did a brain dump the second I
> walked out of the testing center.

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Rug Rat, Slow Scan TV I have read about and I may could build a board from what
I have read (years ago).

i don't know if Fast Scan TV still has anyone doing it in my area anymore.
Years ago I participated in Field Day at a park and heard that near the park a
Ham ran FSTV so I walked over to the QTH, introduced myself and got to see the
gear 
He was running a 432 Mc/s rig and told me several Hams inthe County also were
on the frequency.
At that time I never had operated on VHF and didn't desire todo that.
My first VHF experience was listening to 2 Meter QSOs on the same portable
radio I could tune to the Air Band. Listening to that Repeater I later bought a
friends crystal controlled rig and got in the 2M group.

MATH, read your comments on that subject made me think about when I bought a
TI-30 calculator whichalso had a Book called Math on keys.

Plane Geometry was the highest level Math Class I took in HS.
The calculator book helped me learn Trig (somewhat).
Also I have a book published by Howard Sams called Handbook of Electronic
Tables and Formulas.  It is a big help to me.
I canrecall some formulas but I also have problems with a lot of the deeper
stuff.
Nowadays if I need help DuckDuckGo comes to the rescue.

Now IF I could get straightened out on the English Alphabet,
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA .
Ed
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