[Elecraft] Passed Amateur Extra Class License Today

[Phil Kane]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:06:29 -0700, RG wrote:

> I remember sitting in the Customs House in San Francisco
>taking my tests, and one guy got caught using a calculator and was
>tossed out...The thing was, they were thinking people were loading the
>formulas into their calculators thus cheating...plus you were supposed
>to do the math all yourself.

  It wasn't so much the formulas, some "crooks" were loading in
  the answers in the era of Dick Bash and the stolen Q&As.  That
  eventually led to the public question pools.   Eventually
  calculators were allowed if they were of the type that had no
  memory if they were turned off and on in the examiner's
  presence.

  I was one of the engineers there who gave the code tests, and
  in fact from 1968 through 1974 my office was the room in which
  the code table with the funky Trimm headsets of the type that I
  would love to have today to  go with my refurbished J-38 key
  was located.

  I took my Novice and Tech in the NY office in 1952, and then
  after college and grad school took the General (13 wpm code
  test was all I had to take) in the NY office in 1962. I took
  the Advanced written in 1968 in the San Francisco office just
  after it was restored to the "menu", and the Extra 20 wpm
  code and the written there in 1974. By that time I was a
  supervisor in that office so they had to get another supervisor
  to give me the test. After making  sure that I did copy enough
  at 20 wpm to qualify, he started cranking up the speed on the
  machine behind my back, and lost me somewhere about 25!!

  I never did become a VE after I retired 11 years ago -- I've
  given enough tests in my lifetime!!!

  Congrats to all who take and pass the tests now and in the
  future!

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   5402

   From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
   Beaverton (Washington County)  Oregon