Yesterday, I had a fun, if smallish, class, including three women, three university students, and several other young people. I almost achieved a 100% pass rate, too. Two of the students missed by one question. One of the students passed the General test, so that made up for it a little bit.
Notably, this was the first class that I’ve taught with the new question pool. The addition of the questions about series and parallel circuits stretched out the morning session a little bit, so we didn’t get to lunch until about 12:10, but the afternoon session went a little faster than before, so I actually finished ten minutes early.
The DMR questions seem appropriate. I had one student comment about them after the class. I’m still not so sure about the FT8 questions, though. That seemed to go right over their heads.
Two of the students are also members of All Hands Active, the local makerspace. They’re already talking about doing some ham radio related activities. I’m a member there, and I’ve suggested that we build J-pole antennas. Another thing I’m going to suggest is that we 3d-print some of the parts used to make tape measure Yagis and build some of those.