[CW] FCC TESTING

Fri, 2 Aug 2002 22:25:20 -0400

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rolfe Tessem" <[email protected]>
To: "David J Ring Jr" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] FCC TESTING

> Boy, I don't know what FCC office you took your tests in, but in Detroit
at
> least there were no stinking headphones. Just an audio amplifier turned up
> really loud and reverberating off hard government office walls, while you
> sat in your hard government issue chair, while trying to copy with your
> hard government issue pencil...
>
> Well, you get the idea ;-).

I took General and advanced  in Philadelphia, same thing, the pencil was #22
not #2, the buss wire variety, and the headphones were terrible.
Before the test started the dictator warned us, if you use your own pencil,
you go home and come back in a month.
As all that was going on someone walks in asking when will the FCC  drop the
CW from the test so he could
get HIS ticket.
.
But the best was when I took my novice in the fall of 1971 in the hall of
sciense in Queens NY.
The old man who gave me the test ( I don't remember his call) was somwhat
agrivated when I told him that I was using a DRAKE B line to listen, he
thought I was geting on the air.
So he placed a CW LP on an old Magnavox stereo and set the speed at 78 RPM,
You failed he said.
 I passed when the speed was set at 33 1/2.
 I was given WN2KZU, look at your old log book as I was very active on CW,
it was excactly when the rockbound requirement was droped.

Good old days or what :-))

Constantine WA1WLA ex WA2KZU

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