I sat the Advanced Amateur Radio exam on the 8 December, the venue was Cauis (pronounced Key’s) College in Cambridge city center with the exam starting at 19:00, Martin from Cambridge University Wireless Club (CUW) arranged the venue and invigilated, Colin from Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club acted as the second invigilator.
The exam had an allocated time of two hours and three in total taking the exam, the results are due 6 working days after receipt of the completed papers at RSGB Headquarters in Bedford, so I’m hoping to hear one way or the other by Tuesday 16 December using the OFCOM licensing web portal as I’m told this is where you find out earlier than wait for the results letter, the downside is that if your registration code used on the OFCOM site does not allow you past the application stage, then it may not be good news :-(.
Watch this space and I’ll post up as soon as I know.
17 December 14 – Well it’s good news, checked the OFCOM web site and bingo, passed the advanced, my new call sign is M0HTA, when I got home the envelope containing the certificate was waiting for me, posted on the 16th.
In my blog I’ve mentioned Hamtests and QADV being used as part of my pre exam revision, here are a couple of screen shots of what I did:
Hamtests
Set of 10 test questions with a 10 minute time limit.
Set of 62 test questions with a 2 hour time limit.
The results dropped on the 7th December as my exam was on the 8th and I was panicking!
QADV
Combined results of QADV.Sorry for the compressed image – the last version used was downloaded on the 6th December, 2 days before the exam.
QADV I found to be very well supported in regard to upgrades and it was very easy to use, the screen grabs were from my Laptop, the program was also installed on my desktop so the number of tests actually undertaken is a lot higher than shown (each version change wipes your previous results)!
Many thanks to the providers of Hamtests, QADV, advice from members of CDARC and CUW for facilitating the exam.
