[CW] 99% correct - but still a failure!

[N2EY@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/04 5:01:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, n1ea@arrl.net 
writes:


> Incidentally, if you calculate the percentage of my accurate copy, but 
> still
> FAILED performance (6 errors in five minutes, or 1000 characters) my
> percentage of correct copy was 99.4%.
> 
> But this was still a fail.
> 
> Those were the rules - and the same standard applied to all.
> 

That's one way to look at it. Another is that you could get one solid minute 
out of five and pass - that's 80% *wrong*! 

I recall that in times gone by you were not allowed to go back and correct or 
fill in your copy after the code stopped. It was "PENCILS DOWN" and whatever 
you had on the paper was what was marked.

I think having a minute or two for corrections and fills is reasonable, 
though.

---

I sometimes wondered if anyone ever had the nerve to set down at an FCC code 
test, copy exactly 66 or 101 characters in big block letters (so there'd be no 
doubt of a solid minute) and then put the pencil down for the rest of the 
test. 

73 de Jim, N2EY


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