So did you ever pass? studied about a half hour at a time then took a
long break. That is how you should study in general, and I know it
doesn't always work that way.
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Walt Sebastian wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I had a similar experience when I went for my general. This was back in the
> days that you went to the FCC Office to get a license. I went to the Miami
> FCC and was not worried about the code until it started. I had always had
> the speaker in front of me or to the left side. When the code started, the
> speaker was about fifteen feet to my right. I had made 950 contacts as a
> novice and thought I was very proficient with. It didn't even sound like
> code. Well, I settled down and made 90 percent on the test. This was Feb
> 24 1978 and I had to report to school two days later. Well, then came the
> hard part, the written part. As a novice, I had helped with a couple
> classes and I helped with code and rules and regulations. The first 19 were
> r&r and that meant I had 19 correct. I needed 19 more to pass. Every time
> a question was asked, it seemed like something I studied that morning. My
> reader was from Cuba and he told me, "I don't speak so good English, if I
> say something and you don't understand it, tell me and I will spell it for
> you." I had no problem until he got to the phrase Characteristic impedance.
> and he murdered it, Well that was the only thing he had to spell. At the
> end of the 50 questions, he asked if I wanted to change any answers. I said
> no! He then said, "I think you have one wrong." He took it away and graded
> it and came back and said, I told you that you had one wrong. He actually
> told me the one I got wrong but not the correct answer. The question was
> about FM and how it was transmitted. I said by a carrier, which we all know
> is wrong. 73
>
> Walt and GEB dog Opus
> WA4QXT
> New London CT
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