[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[Jim Rhodes]

Yes, and they changed the questions often to try to put him out of
business. Now they just publish them themselves.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:32 John Simmons <jasimmons at pinewooddata.com> wrote:

> Anybody remember the Bash books?
>
> -de John NI0K
>
> Jim Campbell wrote on 4/28/2020 9:55 AM:
> > While in college, I co-oped with the FCC in Atlanta, GA. I had to take
> > and pass my Radiotelephone First and General class licenses before I
> > was allowed to administer those exams. If you did not pass a test you
> > had to wait 30 days before you could take it again. Some applicants
> > tried to game the system by memorizing as many questions as they could
> > when they first took the test so it would give them a leg up the next
> > time. On the second attempt there were usually howls of anguish when
> > they realized they were facing a different version of the test with
> > different questions.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Jim - W4BQP
> >
> > On 4/28/2020 10:17 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> >> As a 17 year old, I rode the train {pulled by a coal fired
> >> locomotive} from Fulton, KY to Memphis, TN.  I had to walk about 8
> >> blocks to the Post Office building where the FCC administered the
> >> tests.  I took the 4 elements and passed all 4 of them earning me a
> >> First Class Radio Telephone license on the first try.  I recall many
> >> much older folks seemingly to be struggling to take the tests. Some
> >> commented "what's this kid doing in here?"  Seems some had taken it
> >> several times without success.     I spent the night with an old maid
> >> school teacher and relative in Memphis.  I took my General class
> >> license test the next morning in the same place. The CW receiving
> >> portion, in the concrete basement with metal desks and metal chairs,
> >> sounded like marbles being dropped into a galvanized wash tub.   So
> >> was that a T followed by an E or was that and H?  Passed that one
> >> too.  Then I rode the bus from Memphis back to my home in Martin TN.
> >> Yes there were several circuits to identify, and some to draw, as I
> >> recall.   That was 60 years ago.  Glad I had the experiences.
> >>
> >> 73
> >>
> >> Bob, K4TAX
> >>
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