[Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra

[Mike Harris]

G'day,

I have great sympathy with G4ZTR and will make my comment to Eric.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO
K2/100 #1400
K3/100 #345

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WILLIS COOKE" <wrcooke at flash.net>
To: "'Dale Putnam'" <daleputnam at hotmail.com>; <don at w3fpr.com>; 
<jwiley at alaska.net>; "'Ron D'Eau Claire'" <ron at cobi.biz>; "John Lemay" 
<john at carltonhouse.eclipse.co.uk>
Cc: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra


|
| Some people who own ELECRAFT products sure are grouchy and forgot how to 
use their delete key.
|
| Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
| K5EWJ
|
|
| --- On Wed, 3/11/09, John Lemay <john at carltonhouse.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
|
| > From: John Lemay <john at carltonhouse.eclipse.co.uk>
| > Subject: RE: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra
| > To: wrcooke at flash.net, "'Dale Putnam'" <daleputnam at hotmail.com>, 
don at w3fpr.com, jwiley at alaska.net, "'Ron D'Eau Claire'" <ron at cobi.biz>
| > Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
| > Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 1:07 AM
| > Guys
| >
| > I wonder, could this qso return to the topic of Elecraft
| > please ?
| >
| > Many thanks
| >
| > John G4ZTR
| >
| >
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
| > [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
| > WILLIS COOKE
| > Sent: 11 March 2009 03:00
| > To: 'Dale Putnam'; don at w3fpr.com;
| > jwiley at alaska.net; Ron D'Eau Claire
| > Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
| > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra
| >
| >
| > It was only one year Ron.  And that was before incentive
| > licensing and the
| > Extra Class did not allow any additional privileges over a
| > General Class
| > license
| >
| > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
| > K5EWJ
| >
| >
| > --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Ron D'Eau Claire
| > <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
| >
| > > From: Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz>
| > > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the
| > Extra
| > > To: "'Dale Putnam'"
| > <daleputnam at hotmail.com>, don at w3fpr.com,
| > jwiley at alaska.net
| > > Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
| > > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:54 PM
| > > Time was one could not even apply for an Extra class
| > license
| > > until they had
| > > several years of on-air experience.
| > >
| > > That's one requirement I'm sorry they dropped.
| >
| > >
| > > Ron AC7AC
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > -----Original Message-----
| > > From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
| > > [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
| > Dale
| > > Putnam
| > > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:11 PM
| > > To: don at w3fpr.com; jwiley at alaska.net
| > > Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
| > > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the
| > Extra
| > >
| > >
| > > Hi Jim and Don,
| > >
| > >  You hit it on the head Don, and if I may, add a
| > bit...
| > >
| > > Because the Extra test isn't as techie as it was,
| > it
| > > isn't held in as high
| > > esteem as it has. In some circles, the Extra license
| > would
| > > hold much more,
| > > than the Commercial First would, in years gone by. I
| > would
| > > find an Extra in
| > > the job app stack, and with a couple questions, be
| > able to
| > > discern if it
| > > were a memo license, or the real deal...  ..
| > understand
| > > this was "then"...
| > > and even now the license on the resume will still
| > retain
| > > enough interest to
| > > inspire a question or two from the interviewer, and
| > the
| > > more time in the
| > > interview....
| > >
| > > thanks,
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy