Good story Steve.
Pat, K9JAUAt 11:56 AM 11/27/2011, you wrote:
>I had my Conditional.  In 1975, I decided to upgrade.
>
>My dad and I went to the Detroit office of the FCC.  They had a Braille copy
>of the General exam which I took.  But, the engineer couldn't find the
>scoring key, so he said let's assume you passed.  He game my dad the
>Advanced test to read to me; and he came in to do the schematic
>descriptions.  I passed that, so he did the same with the Extra.
>
>In one of the diagrams, he described it and said there is a PNP transistor
>and he described what it was hooked to.  Then, on the third question asking
>about the schematic, he says "Oh Shit!  I gave you the answer to this..."
>The question was "what kind of transistor is this?  To prove to him that I
>would have known, I told him that the arrows pointed inward.  I passed that.
>
>A couple weeks later, the FCC sent me a letter that I had not passed the
>General, but then a couple weeks later, I got another letter which said I
>did pass.  A couple weeks after that, I got my Extra.
>
>Steve, K8SP