The Most Efficient Way to Pass the Technician Exam

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The Most Efficient Way to Pass the Technician
Exam

• How to do it success stories by Norm Goodkin,
  K6YXH

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Why a 1-day Session?

• Clubs are losing potential members because they
  cant commit to multi-day courses.
• Difficult to find teachers for multi-day courses
  too.
• Traditionalists can think of it as a multi-day
  course, where you get your license on the first
  day.
• Most efficient way to study for and pass the exam
  relies on Short Term Memory.
• Follow-on sessions What Radio to Buy? How to
  Program Your Radio, and Getting on the Air!

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Get Other Groups Involved

• Recruit ham radio operators volunteers
• Solution to declining club membership
• Opportunities for Public Service
• Bring them in young!
• Create presentations to gain support
• City government, school districts and classrooms
• Emergency volunteer groups
• Public Safety Commission
• Schools District staff, Teachers and
  Administrators
• Boy Scout leadership Troops and Districts

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Origin of this Approach

• My experience started as a multi-day class, but
  organizers and students requested fewer classes
• Found the http//w6nbc.com/ 1-day approach
• Results
• 1st session 17/19 passed
• 2nd session 24/24 passed
• 3rd session 5/7 passed
• 4th session 20/25 passed
• AC Stelle Middle School 47 new hams!
• Refined approach 15 minute breaks for chalk
  talks free QA lists and study guides
  on-line practice

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Calabasas/DCS 1-Day Flyer
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March June SessionsLost Hills Sheriffs Station
Debbie Larson, City of Calabasas
June VE Team
March VE Team
June Students Pixel the Guard Dog in foreground
June 2 New Hams - Adults
June 2 New Hams Kids, mostly 14. In front,
proud Ben Leeds, 9 yrs old!
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SCATS 1-day Flyer
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SCATS 1st 1-day Study/Exam Session
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AC Stelle Middle SchoolNew Hams - June 2006
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AC Stelle Middle SchoolNew Hams June 2007
KA6ACS
Just some of the 47 eighth-graders who passed
their Tech in May June. Theyre holding cards
with their names and calls. Also pictured is the
teacher, Karl Beutel/KE6MAO, GLAARG Founder R.C.
Smith/W6RZA, Sheriffs Captain Tom
Fakehany/N6FDR, City of Calabasas CFO Gary
Lysik/KF6BIX, Mari/KA6PTV, Naomi/WB6OHW,
Norm/K6YXH, Debbie Larson/KG6ZRF, and ARRL SW
Section Director Dick Norton/N6AA