BLIND-HAMS Archives

For blind ham radio operators

BLIND-HAMS@LISTSERV.ICORS.ORG

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
shawn klein <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 10 May 2004 06:14:21 -0700
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (41 lines)
Cool! Sounds like you guys had some really cool,
friendly experiences in the testing at the FCC office
days.
--- Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yeah, that's a good one, Dave.
> The funny story in my exam is that my dad read the
> textual questions, but had
> no knowledge of the diagrams.  In the Advanced test,
> I think, one of the
> assistant engineers came and did the diagram
> questions.
>
> As he got to one of them, he described the whole
> diagram which was releant for
> the next three or four questions.  As he described
> it, he said we have a PNP
> transistor and told me how the emitter, base and
> collector were hooked up.
> When he got to the third question, he said,
> literally, "Oh shit! I already
> gave you the answer to this...."
>
> The question was "which type of transistor is this?"
>  To show him I knew the
> answer, I asked him if the little arrows pointed
> outward.  So, even though he
> told me the answer, he knew that I knew how to tell
> a PNP from an NPN.
>
> Steve,
> K8sp





__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs
http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

ATOM RSS1 RSS2