I read an article in a Spanish newspaper using a dictionary, and only had to use the latter twice. So +1 for working on spanish.
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Also been reading for more than a month about RF signal propagation. It is one of those frustrating areas of study, driven *only* by a passion for scanning the ether. Otherwise, I was never great with numbers, and a lot of people who write on the subject tend to assume you know a lot aready, or overwhelm you with information.
I am trying to get an Amateur Operator license - primarily for fun, but also to see if that might help me work for a railroad company, as they (Canada Pacific in this case) seem to indicate that such a qualification might be helpful.