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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
>>
>>
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