[ADXA] Not DX, but interesting experience

[Pat Patterson]

Great story Dennis.  Thank you and ARVARF for doing the work for VE
testing. Sounds like the new ham has the Moxie to be a DXer!

73,
Pat W5VY

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022, 3:09 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com> wrote:

> We give remote VE tests and it is often interesting.  Today, we had a
> college student from California.  The team leader sends the applicant an
> e-mail when it is time to get on the Zoom meeting.  He did that and a
> minute or so later, we see her running outside with her phone.  She said
> she got confused between our time and CA time and had to find a suitable
> place to take the test.  We only had one on the list, so we told her to
> take her time.  She found a quiet spot with a table behind a building and
> set up her laptop.  The wi-fi signal wasn’t too good, so she switched over
> to the hot spot on her phone.  I was hoping the reliability and battery
> life on her hot spot was better than mine.
>
> She said she had planned to eat lunch and get in some last minute study
> and was obviously very nervous.   She passed, though.  Someone suggested
> that she could go eat lunch now, and might enjoy a beer with it.  “I’d love
> that if I was old enough for it to be legal”, she said.
>
> I thought the remote VE sessions might be iffy, but the security measures
> are very good and the VE’s probably pay more attention to watching the
> candidate than they sometimes do in an in-person session.  We are doing
> W5YI now and we are about to start doing ARRL remote sessions.
>
> Dennis, W5RZ
>
>
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