Bob, if you figure it out, we can market it and make a fortune! <Smile>


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tinney [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]; blind ham radio operators
Subject: Re: Extra

I can't figure this out.  I'm also 39 and I got my license when I was 13.
I've had my license for 55 years now.

Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]

On 2/27/2016 12:08 PM, Dr. Ronald E. Milliman wrote:
> Congratulations, Lowell! You have me beat! I got my first ticket 59 
> years ago this March. I was 13 when I got my license. Gee, that is 
> strange because we are the same age; both of us are 39! <lol>
>   
>
> Ron, K8HSY
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lowell Miller
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 9:17 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Extra
>
> Speaking of getting a ticket, It was 62 years ago today that my first 
> ticket was signed by the FCC.
> Today is my ham radio birthday of 62 years with the same call.
> Not bad for a guy who is only 39, LOL!
> Yes, and I have enjoyed every one of these years!
> Just thought this might be an encouragement to some discouraged ham 
> some place.
> Best 73 to all!
> Lowell  W8QIY
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Extra
>
>
>> Hello all, personally, I thought that the Extra exam was the easiest 
>> FCC exam of them all.  For my money, the Advance class test was the 
>> toughest, though compared to the exams at MIT, they were trivial 
>> exercises.  How I remember heading to the FCC offices in Boston, 
>> lugging my Smith Corona portable electric typewriter to take all of 
>> the tests, with the exception of my Novice test which I took at 
>> Perkins in my 7th grade year.  Boy was that a long time ago!
>>
>> Alan - N7MIT
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan R. Downing
>> Phoenix, AZ
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of John Fitzgerald
>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:47 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Extra
>>
>> Congratulations Scott.
>>
>> John KB5HCT
>> Muse, Oklahoma
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Scott Gillen
>> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:46 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Extra
>>
>> Just passed the Extra exam.
>>
>> Scott
>> N0HOK / ZL1CHM
>> Auckland New Zealand
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone