[CW] Re: [Fists] Let's Face It!!

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/2/04 9:11:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, n1ea@arrl.net 
writes:


> I was 16 in 1967 when I had my two years in.

I was 16 in 1970 when I got mine! ;-)

  (Extra used to require two
> 
> years experience as General or higher.)


Boy do I remember that! Was ready over a year early, and on the 
first day it was legal for me to try the test I was at the FCC office.

  I just wanted to avoid learning the
> 
> newly announced sub-bands. 

For me it was partly avoidance of building a 25 kHz calibrator.

But the *main* reason I got the Extra back then was that I figured that the 
way things were going, FCC wasn't going to be making the exams easier, so I 
might as well get the big E before they dreamed up more requirements....

 Plus I got that way cool certificate they gave
> 
> to Amateur Extras then.  I think my certificate was AE-1-437 - which meant
> that only 437 were issued in the first FCC district (New England).  We have
> considerably more Extras now.
> 

I didn't know about the certificate. I recall a QST about 1963 saying there 
were about 3500 Extras back then - out of 250,000 US hams.


> I just looked at my wife's license:  It now says "Amateur Extra" class, and
> not "Extra" as it used to say - and mine still says.
> 
> I guess they've flip flopped about the name - again!!!
> 
> 

'zactly.

Not to be *too* competitive, but my 16th birthday was April 24, 1970, and the 
license arrived sometime in the fall of 1970, so I was about 16-1/2 when I 
got the license.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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