I have been in nursing, firefighting and an EMT-Paramedic for 28 years now retired.
I heard about amateur radio operators from another firefighter friend and he thought that because I loved Helping people and missed my career and working the radio to coordinate rescuers and accident scenes that I would love being a ham operator.
I got introduced to Goal1s.com through my friend and have never looked back, this team run by Jeff Hankins is top shelf staff and instructional, helpful test monitors.
They are very thorough and professional and security conscious people who take every step to be sure that I was secure and identified and the on line area I was testing in met parameters for the rules of a secure testing area and walked me through the way to get started in this journey.
I was taught how to join the group and how to schedule myself to a date and time to test comfortably and made suggestions on where to look for a study guide to get ready for the test.
When the time came to take the test I became very nervous. The staff talked to me through the on line portal before the test and explained how this all worked.
This calmed down my nerves and I took my step into the world of ham licensing. The test consisted of different areas of studies and I was so nervous that in preparation for this test I wrote a whole book of notes.
The staff especially including Jeff talked to me and I was ready for the test.
It was 35 questions long and it took me about 45 mins to complete after taking my time.
Upon completing the test I was instructed to press completion button and I did so and received a passing notification within 40 seconds and to my surprise I got 33 out of 35 questions correctly answered.
I then decided to go through all levels of training and now I am preparing for the General level test.
Thank you all in the team and I hope this helps someone else out there who is unsure and nervous.
Respectfully
Deane Shaw
Fireman2
KC1ZOS