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I plan to print the license pools, read them and then take a paper exam for both at the same time. 20 minutes and done.

The rules are the hard things as they MUST be memorized. which is not my strong suite. I think if I read the actual rules before looking at the license pools it will be easier. Logic I can follow. There is a purpose and logic to the rules and that makes them easier to remember.

I'm sure W5UHU won't show in ULS before Monday at best. There is NO feedback from FCC, neither license grant nor vanity call request. Just my payment. I did find a page that stated W5UHU as "Pending", but can't find it again.

I've gotten obsessed with the head copy problem. Fewer than 300 words constitute about 1/2 of all English. They are also the start of majority of words. So if one builds a frequency of occurrence tree one gets a probabilistic view of the next characters. Haven't quite sorted how to print it, but I've processed the Brown corpus as the base with proper names, dates, etc removed. The logic to print it so it is meaningful is the challenging part. What I have is the number of times each word appears in over 88 million words. It's a solid representation of common English usage.

There's a single 2 letter word, "an", but a huge number of words which begin with those two such as "and", "any", etc. The number of commonly used words in English is surprisingly small.

Lots of short words are the start of longer words and knowing what to expect can help with the longer word decoding in your head. This is basic cryptanalytic technique applied to head copy.

I've seen marked deterioration in all manual skills with lack of use, especially playing guitar for 50+ years. Loss of manual dexterity is the most distressing. Only one way to get it back. Take things apart and put them back together. Just a few days not practicing keying and it's gone. I could run the alphabet cleanly at 25 wpm. I can rarely manage 20 at the moment. But I'm now focused on head copy, not keying.

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