[CW] Re: AR

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/03 5:26:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
wa4jqs@mikrotec.com writes:


> >. All that is gone except the most basic imaginable receiving test.
> 
> Receiving test ??? what receiving test ! i am a VE and i have seen guys 
> take the written cw test for 5 wpm and guess their way thur it.

I can see how that would be possible. 


> when i took my general in 62 i had to send and receive 13wpm . had to 
> have  1 min out solid. copy of 5 . none of the muilt guess testing. 

The rules were changed back in 2000 to eliminate the multiple-guess code 
test, btw. 

Back in 1968 when I passed 13 wpm and 1970 when I passed 20 wpm, it was the 
same way, but that wasn't the whole story.

The FCC did the tests, and they provided you with a #2 pencil and lined 
yellow legal pad. You got the 5 minutes of code and as soon as the code stopped the 
examiner either said "PENCILS DOWN!" or pulled the pad away. No going back 
and fixing anything after the code stopped. 

The examiner had to find 65 or 100 consecutive correct legible characters for 
you to pass 13 or 20 wpm, respectively. First time I tried 13 I flunked 
because the examiner could not read my writing.

No using a mill for the ham exams unless you could prove some sort of 
disability that made it necessary (I knew a blind ham who used a Braillewriter, so 
typewriters would be the same sort of thing).  No using your own writing device 
or paper. 

Straight key for the sending test unless you brought your own bug or keyer 
and the means to hook it up.

>why am 
> 
> i telling you guys this . most of you know it already.

Yeah!


> \
> wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
> 

Dittoes!

73 de Jim, N2EY


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