[Elecraft] FCC exams in '50's

[Ken Kopp]

When I took my first exam in 1951 ... in OKC, where the FCC came once 
per
year ... there's no doubt (!) in my mind that I had to draw ... not 
correct ... several
schematics.  One was a Colpits (SP?) oscillator.  There were also simple 
essay
answers required for several questions.

When I took my Commercial Radiotelegraph exam in Tampa I corrected 
errors in
several schematics.  The cigar-chewing, fowl-smelling resident 
examiner's name
was Neeb.  "That's mighty fine CW, son". 'Twas enough to make a feller 
smile  (:-))

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mike Morrow
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, 07 July, 2007 01:15
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Hate the word HAM


Bill wrote to John:

>I'm not sure what you are implying. I took my tests in 1980 under a
>steely-eyed FCC examiner, and they were multiple-choice back then.

The FCC ham technical exams were multiple choice when I took my first 
one in 1968, and they had been at least as far back as the early 1950s 
when my Dad took his.

The only FCC technical exams that were not ALL multiple choice was/is 
the one for First and Second Class Commercial Radiotelegraph License 
(both classes use the same technical exam), and even those exams are 
still 90 percent multiple choice (or at least they were nearly 30 years 
ago when I took the exam).

The reference in the original post may be to the fact that for several 
years after the FCC dropped the "one minute perfect copy out of five 
minutes sent" standard, they used multiple choice exams for the *Morse* 
test after the sending was over.  That didn't last long.

Mike / KK5F


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