Admit One / mental gymnasium
(like sit-ups for your brain)

Amateur radio callsigns are being passed out on a daily
basis. This means lots of new “Hams” are out there.
While technically all are Hams, most are called newbs or
newbies. Being a newb is not necessarily a bad thing
but what is desired here is to loose the label as soon as
possible i.e., moving from being a “Newbie Ham” to being
just a “Ham”. Most newbs are able to make this transition
easily in usually a few weeks. At this point, for the next
month or so they are refered to as “FNG’s”. Some Newbs
have trouble with this transition and quickly progress to
noobs. Some are newbs and noobs at the same time. Most
often newbs will evolve into Hams but occasionally newbs
will evolve into noobs and never leave this annoying state.
If you are planning on getting your Amateur radio license
or the “ultimate geek membership card” as some have called
it, be aware of this preliminary transitional state that all new
Hams go through and do your best to avoid being a noob.

Noob (new*oob) adj.
1. A person who is new and or inexperienced to an environment,
situation, or game, but doesn’t admit it. This person also carries
the belief that they are experienced / skilled in that environment,
when reality proves otherwise.
2. A person who continually fails and does not learn from their
mistakes, and repeats the process.
3. A person who isn’t all “there” but doesn’t realize it.

see also, “newb”

Newb (new*b) noun.
1. Truncation of “newbie”. A neophyte.

That newb needed help getting his rotor
configuration working for 8 days!... who
let him on the repeater in the first place?
Source: kf6hqc, Jan 29, 2006

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