I can do you one better. I let my conditional class license lapse, so had to start over. I took the novice, tech, general, advanced, and extra class tests in immediate succession at the FCC field office in San Francisco. They let one of the junior employees, a very nice young woman, give me the tests orally and take my responses orally. They told me I had passed each one before giving me the next one. When I passedd finished the extra test and passed it, they gave me the code test. When I passed the one-minute of sollid copy at 20wpm by giving the text orally, I had to send with a straight key for a minute or so just to show I could use a key properly. I walked out after 4.5 hours with the knowledge I had an extra class license coming. Of course it took a while to arrive in the mail. This all took place on Friday the 13th in 1976. You can be certain I won't let my license lapse again, hi!.
73,
Dave, A F 6 Y
At 10:05 AM 5/9/2004, you wrote:
>When I wrote my extra in 1975, I had to go to the FCC. I had a Conditional at
>the time, so I had to write my General, Advanced, and Extra all in the same
>day. They had a Braille exam for the General, but not for the Advanced and
>Extra.
>
>AFter I took the General, the District Engineer discovered he didn't have an
>answer key, so he let me take the Advanced. When I passed that, I took the
>Extra. I also knew when I left there, that I'd passed both exams. But, it
>took eight weeks before I got a letter from the F.C.C. informing me I'd passed
>my General as well, and then another four weeks before I got my ticket.
>
>It is interesting that they didn't trust hams who administered Conditional
>licenses, since you had to take the General Class before upgrading. Now, with
>the VE system, we're entrusted with the whole caboodle.
>
>
>Steve, K8SP
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