[CW] Novice Bands are still there

[Alan Wormser]

Well, I stayed a General Class licensee for 20 years, then went for 
Advanced, got snookered into taking the 20 wpm CW exam by a VE -- and 
passed (the multi choice test that time).  Had I not passed, I would 
have been back the next month or two anyway to do the Extra written & CW.

There was no way to "Dick Bash" your way through the CW exam!

Oh well.  I imagine in the future we will need to make a special effort 
to run code classes in our clubs. CW practice could be a good Elmering 
opportunity for us CW guys. 

But the business at hand for the next 60 to 90 days is to protest the 
NPRM and suggest the error of their ways.  I predict the next step will 
be to dumb the exams further (as part of the ARRL's rejected petition 
asked), which does NOT take a change in regulations, unless the exam 
topic standards are reinserted into the regs.

John Geiger wrote:

>Yes and I bashed my way to extra.
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Larry Makoski W2LJ" <Makos327 at worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Alan W." <n5lf at qsl.net>
>Cc: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 5:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [CW] Novice Bands are still there
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>>Alan W. wrote:.
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>>>When I went for my General at the age of 19, I didn't question the 
>>>requirements.  I just told myself that if I wanted the General class 
>>>privileges, that's what I had to do.  And I had to learn the General 
>>>material too because that was the foundation of knowledge that all 
>>>hams need to have to be a General class.
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>>>I rose to the occasion and learned the stuff.  But then again, I never 
>>>had any sympathy for folks that asked me, "Is that going to be on the 
>>>test?" as if that was the only reason to learn something.  That's the 
>>>mentality that has prevailed in the NPRM.
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>>>dit dit
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>>>Alan
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>>I preferred the days when you had a study manual and just tried to learn 
>>it and understand it the best you could; with only a very vague idea as 
>>to what the questions would be.  I'm not saying we should go back to the 
>>days of drawing schematics or anything like that; but it would be nice 
>>if new candidates would not be able to know EXACTLY what the test was 
>>going to be.
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>>Anybody remember the days of the Dick Bash books? 
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>>73 de Larry W2LJ
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