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From: jhb@zeus.UUCP (John H. Burgess)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: My request for help with novice tests
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 11:12:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 29 11:12:47 1985
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First of all, thanks to those of you who took the time to respond to my query.
Lots of good information came out of it, which I will forward to the net:

1) The Sept. 1983 QST has an article on page 56 that describes the (then new)
    Novice test procedure.  It lists the FCC's novice test bank of 200 ques-
    tions from PR Bulletin 1035-A.  It also invites people to send an s.a.s.e.
    to ARRL and ask for their "ARRL Novice Test".  It is a "multiple-choice 
    version of the question pool along with complete instructions to examiners
    and applicants".  I sent for that yesterday.

2) Apparently, some time ago, some hard-working person typed in the entire
    question pool, with correct answers only (not mult choice) and sent it to
    the net.  This was forwarded to me.  Its handy being machine-readable.

3) A single multiple-choice test, with an answer key was provided.  This solved
    my immediate need of giving the test to an applicant. 


One of the questions prompted a fair amount of controversy and friendly rivalry
among the people I showed it to.  Let's see how the net votes:

        2D-7.7  If an SWR bridge reading is higher at 3700 kHz than it is
                at 3750 kHz, what does this indicate about the antenna?

            	A. The antenna is too long
            	B. The antenna is too short
            	C. The antenna is too high
            	D. The antenna is too low


Again, my thanks to those who provided responses.

                               John Burgess, N7DCQ