[Elecraft] FCC exams

[Bill Tubbs]

The last time I visited the FCC (in San Francisco) just before the VEC program started, it was a nightmare. I drove a hundred miles, parked my car at a BART (rapid transit) station, and took the RT to downtown SF, and had an unexpected 30 minute delay.  I walked the four blocks to the FCC office and got to the testing office door just as the clock hit the start time of 10:00 am. As I started to enter, the door was pulled shut from inside and locked. And I was denied entrance to the exam. I was literally almost across the threshold of the door. You can't imagine how PO'd I was. 

It couldn't have been a better time to be their last exam. I wanted to strangle the examiner. Got my Extra Class at the first VEC exam I could find. 

Bill
WK6A

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On Aug 28, 2012, at 5:03 PM, WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I suspect that the FCC office could always give the novice test, but didn't have many takers when you could get the test from a volunteer in the comfort of his or your home.  Everyone knows that the examiners would kill you and eat you if you failed their test.  That is why there was so much fear of the office! At least it seemed that way from the fear shown by otherwise grown men.
>  
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
> K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Alan Bloom <n1al at sonic.net>
> To: Bob Nielsen <n7xy at clearwire.net> 
> Cc: Elecraft List <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K-1 4-bander suggestions?
> 
> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:03 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> Novice testing by volunteers started around 1956 or so.
> 
> I actually took the Novice exam in an FCC office in 1968.  I lived in
> Gettysburg, where the FCC's amateur licensing office was.  Probably it
> was an informal arrangement with the local ham club.
> 
> Alan N1AL
> 
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