Sat Mar 26, 2011 4:53 pm by WolfSpring
I've found a lot of options, unfortunately it does not come with any battery, I knew this before i bid of course, but I did manage to get a DC power converter that takes 12 volts DC so I can run it off a car battery or off of a 12 volt transformer off house power. I've been taking the practice tests on QRZ like crazy and am up to about a 67% average on them, I started in the 40% range and I will be taking the hamtestonline.com program which is 20 bucks and it will teach you what you miss so it's not based off of memorizing and it's not a step by step learning program it teaches as you go and remembers the questions you miss and integrates questions from the same area you missed more often than ones you get right.
I've also been reading Ham Radios For Dummies and learning a lot of stuff. I realize this will be much more expensive than lock picking that's for sure, but something I want, not just for the fun factor, but emergency and survival factors as well. Wife took test one on QRZ and got 54% and she has NO background in any of this so she's interested as well. I've found a club in the Colorado SPrings area and membership dues are 18 bucks a year for a family. They also put on the tests every other month so I will go home enroll with them, go to some meetings and hopefully on August 13th I will be a licensed ham operator.