Just passed Extra!

Fantastic online testing experience through CAVEC and the Bayou Remote Testing VE team. 41/50, and took me about 10 minutes, which was much faster than I was expecting.

I bought the extra course through Ham Radio Prep, but wasn't having a great experience, and the explanations are really, really bad. I bought the ARRL book but have yet to crack the cover on it more than once (too dense), so I ended up on HamStudy, and I really wish I'd have used it sooner. I liked it so much I bought their app to support them - top tier stuff!

I crammed HARD the past week straight, every single night (and morning before work) taking practice tests until my head hurt. I realized that I could quickly identify a pattern with a keyword in the question tied to a keyword in the answer, or a mnemonic to remember the points on the polar coordinates, things like that. That really helped me when taking the test.

Won't post my callsign as I don't like to mix Internet/IRL identifying info too much, but I'll be spending my 4th of July weekend drinking cold beers, grillin burgers, and hunting the 13 colonies in the contest this weekend.

73!