[Elecraft] New Mystery: Copying groups vs plain language text (Rather OT)

[Raymond]

Took novice mail  exam 1959, Kn1LHN in Vermont  Could not do 13 so got  tech license. Tried repeatedly to make 13 until 1975. FCC made agreement with civil service for them to do testing. I was in Youngstown TV chief. Took test every other month maybe 4 times. Federal building high ceiling cassette tape playing code. Had to copy one minute without error. Finally examiner said I passed. Almost cried. So did I really pass it or did he feel sorry for me?
 Those of us with attention issues have a lot of trouble copying code. Yes I know the code just can’t copy more then a few words 
Ray
W8LYJ

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> On May 1, 2020, at 18:33, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> I do remember sometime spring/summer/autumn of 1960 getting on the Long Island Railroad, riding into New York, and then taking the subway much further south than I had ever been before. I walked into the office and was greeted by a gruff examiner who gave me the tests. I managed to pass both the 5 WPM and the novice written and ended up as WV2NOO. Oh, and the gruff examiner congratulated me on passing.
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
>> On 5/1/20 at 1:42 PM, k2asp at kanafi.org (Phil Kane) wrote:
>> 
>> Paraphrasing what one of my mentors once said "do not attribute evil
>> motives on the part of the examiner to the shortcomings on the part of
>> the examinee".   Being scared of the examiner was one of the rites of
>> passage that really had no foundation in reality.
> 
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