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FCC GROL License | Steven Marcotte

2008-06-05T21:10:00.000-07:00

FCC GROL License

Marine Radio Operator Permit (MP)

MPs are required to operate radiotelephone stations aboard certain vessels that sail the Great Lakes. They are also required to operate radiotelephone stations aboard vessels of more than 300 gross tons and vessels which carry more than six passengers for hire in the open sea or any tidewater area of the United States. They are also required to operate certain aviation radiotelephone stations and certain coast radiotelephone stations.

General Radiotelephone Operator License - GROL (PG)

A PG license is required to adjust, maintain, or internally repair FCC licensed radiotelephone transmitters in the aviation, maritime, and international fixed public radio services. It conveys all of the operating authority of the MP. It is also required to operate the following:

any maritime land radio station or compulsorily equipped ship radiotelephone station operating with more than 1500 watts of peak envelope power.
voluntarily equipped ship and aeronautical (including aircraft) stations with more than 1000 watts of peak envelope power.

Written Examination Elements

Element 1 - Basic radio law and operating practice with which every maritime radio operator should be familiar. To pass, an examinee must correctly answer at least 18 out of 24 questions. MP and PG
Element 3 - General Radiotelephone. Electronic fundamentals and techniques required to adjust, repair, and maintain radio transmitters and receivers. The exam consists of questions from the following categories: operating procedures, radio wave propagation, radio practice, electrical principles, circuit components, practical circuits, signals and emissions, and antennas and feed lines. To pass, an examinee must correctly answer at least 57 out of 76 questions. PG

Online Practice Test Elements:

GROL Element 3A Practice Quiz .….. GROL Element 3B Practice Quiz …. GROL Element 3C Practice Quiz

GROL Element 3D Practice Quiz ….. GROL Element 3E Practice Quiz ….. GROL Element 3F Practice Quiz

GROL Element 3G Practice Quiz ….. GROL Element 3H Practice Quiz

In-n-out’s secret menu

2007-10-04T12:40:00.000-07:00

by John Marcotte at badmouth.net

In-N-Out Burgers is a West Coast institution. And one of the keys to their success has been keeping it simple. There are only four food items on the In-N-Out menu: Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Double-Double and French Fries.
In-N-Out compliments the food with the standard array of Coca-Cola beverages and three shakes: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. And that’s the menu in its entirety...more..

Google Gulp

2007-08-30T21:23:00.001-07:00

Posted by: Debbie Marcotte

Looks like Google has entered the fast moving energy drink market….

At Google our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful and accessible to our users. But any piece of information’s usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user who’s using it. That’s why we’re pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA)™ with Auto-Drink™ (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of “smart drinks” designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.

Or maybe it’s just all in fun????

Google Gulp and Your Privacy
From time to time, in order to improve Google Gulp’s usefulness for our users, Google Gulp will send packets of data related to your usage of this product from a wireless transmitter embedded in the base of your Google Gulp bottle to the GulpPlex™, a heavily guarded, massively parallel server farm whose location is known only to Eric Schmidt, who carries its GPS coordinates on a 64-bit-encrypted smart card locked in a stainless-steel briefcase handcuffed to his right wrist. No personally identifiable information of any kind related to your consumption of Google Gulp or any other current or future Google Foods product will ever be given, sold, bartered, auctioned off, tossed into a late-night poker pot, or otherwise transferred in any way to any untrustworthy third party, ever, we swear. See our Privacy Policy

Mantras in the work place...

2007-08-30T20:04:00.001-07:00

Here is a link to a nice article about using mantras in the work place...

Who among us has not had the horrible experience of an corporate offsite to build teamwork and to craft a mission statement? The offsite usually went like this....more

Stardust review

2007-08-30T19:45:00.001-07:00

Posted by: Debbie Marcotte in Movies

Badmouth.net gives this movie a 4 star rating making this a must see ..

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro, Claire Danes

Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Stardust, the ten-year-old fairy tale written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Charles Vess, takes the best of that magical adventure and shakes it up a little for movie audiences. It’s a remarkable and rare adaptation in which the essential story is preserved, and the deviations are an improvement for the cinematic presentation read more of this review at ………Stardust 2007 » Badmouth

William Kamkwamba's Windmill

2007-08-30T19:43:00.000-07:00

Posted by: Debbie Marcotte

This is a wonderful story of William Kamkwamba a young man from Malawi, that built his first windmill when he was only 15.

The windmill now powers lights for 3 rooms and a light over his family’s porch outside.

They also use it to power his family’s two radios and charge mobile phones that the neighbors have.

Click the link and visit his remarkable blog

William Kamkwamba

2007-08-24T11:15:00.000-07:00

Posted by: Debbie Marcotte

This is a wonderful story of William Kamkwamba a young man from Malawi, that built his first windmill when he was only 15.

The windmill now powers lights for 3 rooms and a light over his family’s porch outside.

They also use it to power his family’s two radios and charge mobile phones that the neighbors have.

Click the link and visit his remarkable blog