that's interesting. had to copy the cw with ear phones hi. it was fun.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Sebastian" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: today's the day


> 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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>