I saw it done that way only once but all the other sessions I have been to
it was on tape in the front of the room.Then because I used the Grailler I
had mine afterwords and of course out ofthe room when the original test
wa aking place.





On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Barbara Lombardi wrote:

> that's interesting. had to copy the cw with ear phones hi. it was fun.
> Barb [log in to unmask]
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walt Sebastian" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:26 AM
> Subject: Re: today's the day
>
>
> > Hi Folks,
> > I had a similar experience when I went for my general.  This was back in
> the
> > days that you went to the FCC Office to get a license.  I went to the
> Miami
> > FCC and was not worried about the code until it started.  I had always had
> > the speaker in front of me or to the left side.  When the code started,
> the
> > speaker was about fifteen feet to my right.  I had made 950 contacts as a
> > novice and thought I was very proficient with.  It didn't even sound like
> > code.  Well, I settled down and made 90 percent on the test.  This was Feb
> > 24 1978 and I had to report to school two days later.  Well, then came the
> > hard part, the written part.  As a novice, I had helped with a couple
> > classes and I helped with code and rules and regulations.  The first 19
> were
> > r&r and that meant I had 19 correct.  I needed 19 more to pass.  Every
> time
> > a question was asked, it seemed like something I studied that morning.  My
> > reader was from Cuba and he told me, "I don't speak so good English, if I
> > say something and you don't understand it, tell me and I will spell it for
> > you."  I had no problem until he got to the phrase Characteristic
> impedance.
> > and he murdered it, Well that was the only thing he had to spell.  At the
> > end of the 50 questions, he asked if I wanted to change any answers.  I
> said
> > no!  He then said, "I think you have one wrong."  He took it away and
> graded
> > it and came back and said, I told you that you had one wrong.  He actually
> > told me the one I got wrong but not the correct answer.  The question was
> > about FM and how it was transmitted.  I said by a carrier, which we all
> know
> > is wrong.  73
> >
> > Walt and GEB dog Opus
> > WA4QXT
> > New London CT
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> >
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