OK, but do you want to go where you aren't wanted?  I in 1968 tried to join 
any branch because I was a car mechanic, and I had an advanced license but I 
couldn't get anywhere.  And the draft was going on then.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Challenges taking FCC exams


> Butch,
>
> Isn't it interesting how the Federal Government is the biggest 
> discriminator
> to the disabled?  For example, wouldn't it be possible for some of us to
> have been radio operators in the military?  I repaired medical electronics
> in a hospital here for 20 years as a legally blind person.  Obviously, I
> must have been able to do the job or I wouldn't have been there for almost
> 20 years. Why couldn't my abilities have been used by the military to 
> repair
> military electronics behind the scenes, or some other non-combat job?
>
> It sucks!
>
> 73
>
> Howard #3
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Challenges taking FCC exams
>
>
>>I went to electronics school in the 60s, 1968, I applied to the fccc to
>> take my second class license test and wanted to go to the first class
>> and was refused.  They refused to give me a waver to have the test read.
>>  I had my congressman go to the fcc and he finally got igh enough that
>> the guy said that is how it was and he didn't give a damn.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 3 Jun
>> 2013, Harvey Heagy wrote:
>>
>>> This guy sounds like a real loser.  It is my understanding that the FCC
>>> at
>>> one time allowed us to take the first class license, but then changed
>>> their
>>> mind.  In the early 70's, there was a woman named Mary Jane Keener who
>>> lived
>>> in Iowa at the time who wanted to take it.  The NFB was trying to help
>>> her,
>>> and among other things pointed out that there were blind people who held
>>> the
>>> first class license for a long period of time.  When the FCC threatened
>>> to
>>> revoke all those outstanding first class licenses is when they filed 
>>> suit
>>> and eventually won.  Of course that was in the days when the NFB was
>>> truly
>>> an advocacy organization before it attempted to redefine advocacy for 
>>> its
>>> own purposes and began worshiping the federal goose that laid the golden
>>> egg.
>>> Harvey
>>>
>>>