Gday Martin

Wondering if you are useing speach with the Mac and what you think of it?

73
Scott
zl1chm / n0hok
Auckland New Zealand


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: license renewal


> What is the toll-free number for the ARRL members? I am
> a life member but became one in 1975 long before the present
> landscape existed.
>
> My license expires at the end of this month. I was going
> to renew it on line via the new Mac I have at work but got
> caught in one of those wonderful accessibility snags. Right now
> the only browser for Mac that is truly accessible is safari
> which is a good thing because many sites will work with safari,
> but, of course, not the FCC's site. It requires Internet
> Exploder, probably one compiled by the light of a 3RD-Quarter
> moon when it is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with
> Mars. Well, the Fifth Dimension gave me that idea, but one would
> hope that a public site would be less esoteric.
>
> Anyway, when I tried to apply for a FRN, it appeared to
> work but then nothing ever happened on their end.
>
> The Firefox browser might work, but it has not yet been
> made accessible for the Mac. It probably will be one day, but
> not before March 31. GRRR!
>
> I could have gone the Windows/JAWS route at work, but I
> am a UNIX geek through and through and I knew that these things
> would happen from time to time, but I need to go to Plan B for
> now.
>
>
> As for remembering the good/bad old days, I cam remember
> a few trips down town in Oklahoma City in the seventies to take
> the 13-WPM CW, once in 1969 at which point I flunked but got
> enough right in a row to qualify for a Technician License.
>
> In March of 1970, I went back to that place of terrors
> and passed. In fact, I remember the examiner watching me say the
> letters and he just stopped the tape after a minute because I
> already had it.
>
> One of the last times I took one of those FCC-given
> exams was in 1976 in a relatively new building at 5TH and
> Robinson in Oklahoma City called the Alphred P. Morough Federal
> building. It was the Advanced Class and I passed it after 2
> tries.
>
> Louis Kim Kline writes:
>>I guess that dates me too, because I remember going to 111 West Huron
>>St.  In fact, I went there to take my Advanced Class test.  The Technician
>>test and three out of the four 13 wpm code tests that I failed were taken
>>in Syracuse.  The FCC used to go there four times a year, and I was going
>>to college at Syracuse University at the time.  I did fail one 13 wpm test
>>in Buffalo, too, but I came so close that I knew that I would hit it on 
>>the
>>next try.
>>
>>I still remember the euphoria of the day that I passed the 13 wpm and
>>passed the Advanced written test.  I guess unofficially I was a General 
>>for
>>about an hour--the amount of time between when I passed the 13 wpm and 
>>when
>>I passed the Advanced Class written exam.
>>
>>I went straight from there to the nearest Radio Shack to buy a 4 pin
>>connector so I could wire a microphone for the Kenwood TS130S, and I went
>>home and scavenged the Turner hand microphone that I referenced earlier
>>today from an old dead CB that my father gave me.  That was a great day.
>>
>>73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>At 04:51 PM 3/1/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>>>Hi;
>>>I know it dates me but it would prefer to just go to my local fcc.  I do 
>>>pay
>>>their salary.
>>>Richard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>Louis Kim Kline
>>A.R.S. K2LKK
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>
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