[CW] re no code

[Anthony W. DePrato]

>
>As for exams, the UK licence structure (licence for life now!) has
>been thouroughly overhauled and is now a compulsory progressive system,
>you have to advance stage-by-stage through Novice, Intermediate to
>Advanced, and there is a practical assessment which involves building
>simple equipment.

SNIP
Stan:
I have a lot of friends who have set the UK test and your system is one of 
the better ones.
here in the USA all you have to do now is memorize the question pool as 
they give you all the questions that are on the test and then you mark out 
the wrong answers and just memorize the questions and correct answers . I 
use to do a lot of testing but now i do not as to why i just got sick and 
tired of hearing the guys complaining that it took them a week to memorize 
all those questions so they could pass the general test. i restore old gear 
for my own use and sometimes fix gear for other hams. true story i had one 
of the new extra's in the area call me about his new rig he had been using 
for about six months. said it was dead and wanted me to look at it before 
he sent it back to the factory. ok bring it over. i plugged it into one of 
my power supples and it worked just fine. so he went back and got his power 
supply. hooked it up nothing. checked the fuse and it was blown. replaced 
the fuse and it worked great. asked him what he was doing when it went 
dead. well i had it on AM and was trying to adjust my antenna to talk to 
some of my old pals on channel 21 and after a few mins it just blow. true 
story. i just shook my head and gave it back to him.

Merry Christmas
Tony


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