<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><br></div>Rich - I also found the extra material extremely tough for me to wrap my head around - and I am also a security/network/systems engineer.<br><br>Certain topics just bounced off my brain.<br><br>What worked: schedule the exam, hit the material hard for a month (1-2 hours/night +/-), then take the exam, no matter how you feel about the material.<br><br>Also, if a study method is not working for you - switch to a different method.<br><br><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn" data-zbluepencil-ignore="true"><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>K7LBH<br></div><div><a href="https://www.qrz.com/lookup/K7LBH" target="_blank">https://www.qrz.com/lookup/K7LBH</a><br></div></div><div data-zbluepencil-ignore="true" style="" class="zmail_extra"><br><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1">---- On Wed, 08 Apr 2020 13:56:05 -0700 <b>RICH LOVIN <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:richlovin@gmail.com">richlovin@gmail.com</a>></b> wrote ----<br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 6px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px;"><div><div dir="ltr">Lewis,<div><br></div><div>Your info will help those wanting to upgrade to extra. When I did it I found<br></div><div>it very frustrating even though I am a software and systems engineer. I<br></div><div>had a hard time getting interested in retaining all the info just to pass a test.<br></div><div>I knew that I would use technical references if I every needed to do some of<br></div><div>the obscure stuff.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Rich, KQ7R<br></div></div><br><div class="x_1988654032gmail_quote"><div class="x_1988654032gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:39 PM Lewis Howell <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:k7lbh@maregan.com">k7lbh@maregan.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>HiDARG-Members mailing list <br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:HiDARG-Members@hidarg.org">HiDARG-Members@hidarg.org</a> <br><a target="_blank" href="http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org">http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org</a> <br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1.0ex;" class="x_1988654032gmail_quote"><u></u><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 10.0pt;"><div>I heard a couple people mention testing for the General/Extra. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Max told me at one point 'studying the questions for the extra is just not enough' - and I agree.<br></div><div><br></div><div>However, I did find one resource that really worked for me: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/">https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com/</a> .<br></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, YMMV, but this prep resource builds in e-learning components that thoroughly explain topics and methodologies referenced by a set of questions. In fact, they really dig into a topic - diagrams, reference material etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I used this resource in combination with books, test questions and ran the site on an old android tablet.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Worked for me.<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>--<br></div><div>K7LBH<br></div><div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.qrz.com/lookup/K7LBH">https://www.qrz.com/lookup/K7LBH</a><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br> HiDARG-Members mailing list<br> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:HiDARG-Members@hidarg.org">HiDARG-Members@hidarg.org</a><br> <a target="_blank" href="http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org">http://hidarg.org/mailman/listinfo/hidarg-members_hidarg.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>