Re: [MKARS] Upcoming Fast Track Foundation Course Date Set

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

Jim GM4DHJ ... <jim.g...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 14/04/2019 11:48, AndyW wrote:
>> On 13/04/2019 12:35, Dozy Jim ... wrote:
>>> "MKARS via rec.radio.info Admin" <rec-radio-i...@panix.com>
>>> wrote in
>>> message news:00000000000099...@google.com...
>>>>
>>>> MKARS - Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society
>>>>
>>>> ///////////////////////////////////////////
>>>> Upcoming Fast Track Foundation Course Date Set
>>>>
>>>> Posted: 12 Apr 2019 04:00 PM PDT
>>>> https://www.mkars.org.uk/news/article/198/upcoming_fast_track_foundation_course_date_set
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This year Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society [MKARS] is launching a new
>>>> fast track Amateur Radio Foundation Course.
>>>> The course is an exciting introduction to the world of amateur radio and
>>>> provides you with the minimum acceptable level of skill and
>>>> experience to
>>>> get your Foundation License.
>>>> Based out of our training centre at Caldecotte Lake Business Park,
>>>> Milton
>>>> Keynes, the course runs over two weekends, with support throughout. It
>>>> includes classroom learning, an opportunityto get on the air, antenna
>>>> tuning experience, morse appreciation as well as online support and pop
>>>> quizzes throughout.
>>>>
>>>> At the end of the course you will be given the opportunityto sit the
>>>> Foundation License exam and obtain your amateur radio license. The
>>>> exam is
>>>> multiple choice, requiring a pass mark of 19/26.
>>>> The course and training support is free. You will need your own copy of
>>>> the  course text book Foundation License Now!, by Alan Betts - priced
>>>> £4.99 at  most retailers. You will need to join MKARS club (currently
>>>> £12.50 for the  remaining 6 months of this club year) and finally those
>>>> wishing to sit the  exam and hopefully obtain their license will need to
>>>> pay £27.50  to RSGB/Ofcom dircetly for the exam - details will be
>>>> provided.
>>>>
>>>> The next course starts the weekend of 25th/26th May, if you have any
>>>> questions or wish to sign up, please email Francis -
>>>> trai...@mkars.org.uk
>>>>
>>> I WANT TO BE A HAMMY MENS AND I WANT IT NOW NOW NOW
>>> ......................
>>
>> I can sympathise with that attitude. I wanted to start building my own
>> QRP kit and I needed to get Foundation and Intermediate to be able to do
>> it.
>>
>> If I had the option to do foundation over a couple of weekends and
>> intermediate right away I would have done it but locally I had to take 6
>> months to go from newbie to Full.
>>
>> Andy
>
> half as long as cole...well done...
>

12 and a half years quicker than Gareth, too.

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[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

you would still be a class B that is for sure....

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

like your X pal ....

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

Thanks for the retwat, Jim. Thanks, Jim.

[Stephen Thomas Cole]

EU Citizen Brian Reay <no...@m.com> wrote:
> On 15/04/2019 16:48, Spike wrote:
>> On 15/04/2019 11:11, EU Citizen Brian Reay wrote:
>>> On 15/04/19 11:31, Spike wrote:
>>>> On 15/04/2019 06:48, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:

>>>>> Stephen Thomas Cole CB/M0TEY wrote:
>>
>>>>>> 12 and a half years quicker than Gareth, too.
>>
>>>>> you would still be a class B that is for sure....
>>

>>>> No wonder the boy waited for the tick-box exam...
>>
>>>> 20? years > 13 years
>>
>>>> Cole loses again.
>>
>>> He didn't claim to have upgraded when he hadn't nor, like some one else,
>>> pretends to be an 'old timer' when he, almost certainly did the multiple
>>> choice exam and was licensed in the 90s.
>>
>> Swivel-eyed nonsense.
>>
>
> My, that hit a nerve ;-)

Burt’s bouncing again. Must be a particularly costly school holidays in
terms of car aerials for him. Poor Old Burt. WASOC.