[Elecraft] FCC exams

[Dale Putnam]

I can't speak to SF, but after driving 180 miles one way... to get to the office to take the test.... and doing chores way early.. (can you say before daybreak?)I arrived, at what I thought was "in time" only to bounce off the "locked door"... I rechecked the labels of the door... found the bathroom.. (you find that necessity, evenas a young teenager, after riding for nearly 200 miles)... came back out.. and was anxious to "getter done" after hearing voices and a door shut. Bounced off the locked door again?????  what the.... ??? Just as I was about to knock.. the door magically opened.. and a solumn... unsmiling face... pointed at the NEXT door..that was plainly marked "ENTRANCE".... however the one I was standing at was marked with a "FCC" sticking out sign. ... ...   Seems I had found the door to the equipment room. They waited for me... Can you imagine facing my father, to tell him that we had to come back? Well... I did have to do that... cause I missed one too many questions... NUTZ!But the next time it was a good trip... cause I got to go to "radio row" in lower Denver.

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Dale - WC7S in Wy
 
>   I was the supervisor at the San Francisco FCC Office during
>   that time and with all due respect for your memory of what
>   happened nearly 30 years ago at no time did we do anything like
>   that. We never locked any doors at 10am, in the face of any
>   applicant or otherwise. The doors to the exam room were always
>   open, and the only time that the doors to a separate code test
>   room were closed was to ensure some degree of privacy and
>   quietness for the folks who were taking the code test.   Quite
>   often we would run a "second session" for folks who didn't make
>   the session on time or when we had more applicants than we had
>   seats for.
> 
>   What triggered your bringing this up now?
> 
> 
> --  73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
>     Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402
> 
>     Retired and loving every minute of it
>     Work was getting in the way of my hobbies
> 
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