ARLA/CLUSTER: Rapariga de 8 anos já é classe 2 nos E.U.A.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

[http://www.news-journalonline.com/images/2011/03/31/hamgirl401.jpg]
By Recommendation T/R 61-01, the FCC Technician license is equivalent to CEPT Class 2.
Girl, 8, parents band together as ham radio operators

Mikaila Williams is a whiz at her schoolwork. She loves her pet hamster Summer, who she says has "g-force" because of her ability to escape her cage.

Mikaila loves to read. Her favorite book so far: "Heidi," although she pronounces it "Heady."

She's every bit of 8 years old. And she's a newly licensed amateur radio technician.

Mikaila's mother, Jen, and stepfather Ron Fetters are ham radio operators, so she has seen how the 100-year-old technology has remained valuable and relevant, even in this age of smartphones and social networking.

And Mikaila -- who's not yet on Facebook or Twitter -- says she wants to be helpful.

So she studied for her technician's license, passing an exam that covered such topics as radio frequency signals, the velocity of radio waves and antenna installation. One question from a sample test: "What electrical component is used to connect or disconnect electrical circuits?" (Possible answers: variable resistor, switch, inductor or Zener diode.)

And last week, at first crack, she passed. "I only missed three (questions)," she said. "I could have missed nine (and still passed)."

This week, she received her license in the mail.

Her call letters are KK4BFK. That's kilo, kilo, 4, bravo, foxtrot, kilo, in radiospeak.

You can read the full article about Mikaila at:
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/west-volusia/2011/04/01/girl-8-parents-band-together-as-ham-radio-operators.html
-------------- próxima parte ----------
Um anexo em HTML foi limpo...
URL: http://radio-amador.net/pipermail/cluster/attachments/20110404/7b7a5fe9/attachment.html