One of my 2008 goals

While I don’t make pub­lic most of my yearly goals, you can often infer some of them from the things I talk about. How­ever, here’s one you’d prob­a­bly not guess with­out know­ing me fairly well.

Any­way. I’m work­ing on get­ting my ham radio license. RARA, the Rochester Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion, offers test­ing every month and I’m out­look­ing the Feb­ru­ary ses­sions. I’ve been work­ing on this goal on and off since high school (no, really), but I’ve never set it as a goal before. I’ve pur­chased the license study man­ual from the ARRL three times now, and two of them expired before I went for test­ing (I’ve been a mem­ber for years, oddly enough). I’m mostly inter­ested in VHF (50Mhz and above) so the Tech­ni­cian license is a good fit for me. I can pass the exam now, based on my knowl­edge and edu­ca­tion but I need more spe­cific info to really do well. I real­ize this takes me from geek to colos­sal geek, but that’s the way it goes.

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