Love it! Ed is a good guy!
Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> OK y'all, since we're gonna talk about the good ol' days, dumbing down
> the tests, and all the rest, well, looky here. Courtesy of Ed Hare,
> the ARRL technical dood.
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Hare,Ed, W1RFI" <[log in to unmask]> -----
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> If you want to see dumbed down, compare today's Now You're Talking to the incredibly difficult material I had to study to get into ham radio in 1963!
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> http://www.arrl.org/~ehare/novice63.html
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> And if anyone thinks I understood the stuff in Question 34, they got another thing coming. I read and re-read that until I had it -- gasp -- memorized and guessed my way through the exam. I thought I had climbed a mountain.
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> If we went back to the "good old days," today's "dumbed down" contigent would lead the howls of protest.
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> If you want to see the real reason we are not getting many 13 year olds into today's ham radio, compare what I had to do to get started to what we ask of the 13-year old kids of today. If W1BNB had handed me a 200-page book instead of the 3.5 pages above, I never would have done it. And, if he handed me the 200-page book, then held up the 3.5 pages and told me how dumbed down all that stuff was compared to what he had to learn, I would have thought him daft.
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> 73,
> Ed Hare, W1RFI
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