[Elecraft] OT: The Colpitts mystery

[Macy monkeys]

I took my General at the FCC office downtown Portland in the late 60s. The examiner was a tough and gruff staffer named Francis McCann. IMHO, he was extra tough on 14 year olds, hi. You know my heart was racing when that series of V's came through those headphones! 

John K7FD

> On Apr 29, 2020, at 4:08 PM, John Simmons <jasimmons at pinewooddata.com> wrote:
> 
> I took my Extra at the FCC in St Paul somewhere 1985-1987. It was about 6 months before the FCC testing ended. I wanted to get it out of the way before the VE program started. Fear of the unknown, I guess. I worked as a VE early on in the program. I've seen some abuses, but overall I think it is a great change for us hams.
> 
> 73,
> -de John NI0K
> 
> Fred Jensen wrote on 4/29/2020 4:14 PM:
>> I'm pretty sure it was in the early 80's.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
>> Sparks NV DM09dn
>> Washoe County
>> 
>>> On 4/28/2020 9:27 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>>>> On 4/28/2020 4:16 PM, EricJ wrote:
>>>> but some time in the mid-50s it was given over to volunteer hams.
>>> 
>>> My memory is that it was a LOT later than that. I'd guess late '70s to early '80s.
>>> 
>>> 73, Jim K9YC
>> 
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