[CW] Dissing the ARRL

[Donald Chester]

>All kinds of stories were told but I know of none that can be proven 40 
>years later.
>One trick I've heard was to use the address of a relative who lived outside 
>the
>limit, get the license, then "move" once the license was in hand.
>
>I do recall that in the '70s, when the FCC eliminated the Conditional, 
>there was
>a lot of shouting by some who thought they'd have to be retested. But all 
>the
>FCC did was to reclassify Conditionals as Generals.

I can recall in the 1960's many hams in my local area had Conditionals.  
Some openly admitted they couldn't copy a letter of code, and their theory 
knowledge was not much better.  Friends would "give" conditional tests to 
friends.

I remember visiting a ham (who was a Conditional licensee) and looking over 
his homebrew plate-modulated AM transmitter (that another ham built for 
him).  There was the final, the modulator, and four neatly lined up 866A 
rectifiers on a homebrew wooden rack.  I remarked that his power supply must 
use a BRIDGE rectifier circuit.  He responded, "yep, it's a bridge 
rectifier.  Two separate power supplies.  The pole pigs are in the attic."

Don K4KYV

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