[Boatanchors] Upgrade question

[Jim Wiley]

The amateur CW exam NEVER, to my knowledge,  consisted of 5-letter 
groups.  That was for the commercial telegraph exam.  The amateur exams 
were always straight text.


However, you could get amateur exam credit for 20 WPM without taking the 
test if you could show that you had a 1st or 2nd telegraph license.


- Jim, KL7CC



Bob Macklin wrote:
> A comment was made about how much more difficult the 1960 era General exam
> was than today's Extra exam.
>
> I would like to add a comment that in the 1960 era the CW exam was also more
> difficult than the recent CW exam. In 1960 the CW exam consisted of 5
> character groups where the characters were random rather than the text most
> recently used.
>
> Bob Macklin
> K5MYJ
> Seattle, Wa,
> "Real Radios Glow in the Dark"
>
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>