[AMRadio] FCC exam

[Bernie Doran]

Yep, Yep, Yep. it was Dick not Joe.  Amazing how the brain scrambles info 
after so many rewrites of the data!! Bernie.
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> At 06:52 PM 1/27/2012, Bernie Doran wrote:
>>The gentleman that administered both novice and general for me was Joe
>>Cotton  (1954)
>
> Do you mean Dick Cotton? (W8DX at that time)  Worked out of the Detroit
> office and traveled quarterly to Cleveland, Columbus, etc, to give exams.
> I appeared before him for both General and Extra exams.  One experience
> good and the other bad. :-[   A real "bull of the woods."   Worked him on
> 30M CW in later years and he was amused by stories about him.
>
> Perry  w8au
>
>>Heard all sorts of stories about what a nasty person he was.
>>He was a little strict but he also had to admister probably 50 people.  I
>>knew I failed the 13 WPM as I could not read it!  He said no problem, if I
>>had time I would be able to fill in the skips etc!!!
>>
>>Interesting that people remember their FCC examiner from so many years.
>>Bernie
>
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