Well the news is in, exam

I passed the foundation this morning.... Feeling good,,

Congratulations, well done!

Yaaaaay! You bloody beauty Chris!!!!

Well done mate! Really pleased for you.

That was well worth trying again wasn't it?

My 'Station Manager', (the missus), passes on her congratulations too. She knew how excited I was when I passed and how excited I get when others pass and the excitement's contagious.

Hope to catch you on the bands one day mate!


All my very best,
Victor

Someone was looking down at me,,, I know it doesn't matter on points as long as it's a pass by the way i got 19 talk about cutting it fine... At least my stress levels can go back to normal..

All good,i must try and have another Go at the exam Cos my laptop crashed 2 minettes before the exam,i will give it another go soon.

I found it difficult questions I hadn't come across

A pass is a pass Chris and no matter how you look at it, it was all down to your hard work, studying and sheer determination. 

You showed tenacity and true grit at resitting the exam mate......and it was finally all worth it!

You've 'jumped the hoops' now, it'll seem forever for that certificate to come through, but when it does you'll excitedly get on that OfCom site and get your deserved call sign. You've expanded your radio interests and will get to enjoy it.

It's a big pat on the back from me, don't feel shy to give yourself a pat too!

Congratulations on passing - a pass is a pass as they say.  I've been doing mock exams, not yet booked my Foundation exam. I've been getting 23/26 on a few tests on https://radiotutor.uk/l/F/exam and similar on the UK Amateur Radio Mock Tests iphone app.

I'm conscious it will only take a mix of a few of those tricky questions to take me below the pass mark so I'm interested in any examples that people can remember to try to get them into my head :-).

They use a 500 questions off the syllabus they pick them out randomly any 26 they want

Congratulations, Chris. Very well done.

Many congrats Chris and a big well done 


Enjoy your new bands 


Craig

Congrats on the pass! What does the foundation class license allow you to do/not do? Sorry been a long time since I took my exam.
But well done, and enjoy.

Tx Hf, lots of bands only thing I can't do is build radios, not done any morse, which I wasn't keen on anyway..

Well that is cool!  Is there any need to take another level? If you have the HF bands? I take it you can also use VHF/UHF as well?

Certainly can sorry forgot that bit, all very busy on 70cm while the conditions are poor..

Have fun with it. I remember getting my pass and being very excited. Hopefully meet you on air one day.

Glad you stuck at it.
Well done.

Congratulations Chris, welcome to the dark side!!! 

73's Gary.

Love it Gary

"Do...or do not...there is no try"
"DX you must....FT8 you must not"


....and a million other instructions from self appointed Yoda's or dark side Sith Lords 


Enjoy your Ham privileges Chris, never let anything knock you back and remember you'll be talking to a world of strangers. Most will welcome you, a few will attempt to mould you into their version of what Ham 'membership' is about.

Will listen out for you next Sunday on the "Sausage and Scouse" net on the 2m band.
Said you could do it made up for you m8.

Just ordered a 2m 70cm aerial for outside, what frequency is the net on 2m next week

The repeater is GM3MP 145.750 fM .

Hopefully should get my letter late in the week, will post on the forum when I get my M7

Thursday i recon.
The s&s have a FB page have a look.
You will see the problems they have had just of late and why MP was switched off twice.
For that 2m aerial get some better coax as the losses at that frequency are more so the coax is important.

Congratulations....glad you persevered!