aka, KE7VVU, aka me :D A few weeks ago, my wife received an email that was offering an Amateur Radio Operators class for any of the Staff and their family that wanted to take the course. It was a condensed 3 day course.  I've always thought that it would be nice to get my license but it wasn't really something that I was dying to get.  When this opportunity came up, I figured that I should take advantage of it.  It was free after all. So I signed up for the course.  There was a ton of pre-homework that we were supposed to do, but with our trip to Montana right before class started and my work being a bit crazy I wasn't able to do a lot of the assigned work. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to keep up during the class.  I even considered not going to the class on the day that it started, but I went. It was really strange because I found that the concepts, rules, regulations, etc. actually came quite easily to me.  I was still concerned that I wouldn't pass the exam though. Last Saturday morning was the exam.  I had taken a few practice exams online and was feeling a bit more confident about the exam, but was still just hoping to pass. Well I completed the exam within about 20 minutes.  Then I had to wait for another 40 minutes (or more) to get my results. When the VE came over to give me my results I was shocked.  I had passed with 100%.  So this week I've just been waiting for my call sign to be posted to the ULS database, which would mean that I could start using an Amateur Radio (provided I actually had one). Well, today my call sign was finally posted and now technically I have my Technician Class Amateur Radio license.  I'll be taking the exam for he General class at some point, but probably not for a while.