[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[Jim Brown]

On 4/28/2020 7:17 AM, Bob McGraw K4TAX wrote:
> That was 60 years ago.

Great story, Bob. I grew up in Huntington, WV, and took the exams on the 
4 times a year visits to Charleston by the examiner. It was a long 
narrow room in the basement of a federal building there, with 40 desks 
and a center aisle. A paper tape and audio oscillator sent CW. 
Applicants filed in, took the CW exam, and those who weren't in the 
first two rows filed out, because the sound echoed through the room. I 
failed there twice, finally passed it in Washington, DC in the office 
there. My folks worked for the C&O Ry, and were able to get me a pass on 
the mainline, which ran through Huntington to DC. I stayed overnight 
with an uncle and aunt who lived there. I was 15.

I passed the Extra and First Phone in Cincinnati at the office there 
three years later.

73, Jim K9YC