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Pat it took me 4 times before I finally nailed that thing at the fcc office
in Baltimore and I fortunately had to use my own reader Bill Hill k3int and
I waltzed through the code test, the advanced and extra back in April 1981.
73- pat kk3f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: novices
> And that Advanced test was a bear!! Took it twice at the FCC in chicago!!
> Pat, K9JAUAt 07:00 AM 2/17/2012, you wrote:
>>To expand on Howard's discussion,
>>
>>If you passed the General you only needed to pass the written test to
>>receive your Advanced as the code requirement for the Advanced was the
>>same
>>as for the General. To receive the Extra, you needed to pass a code test
>>of
>>20 words per minute and a written exam.
>>
>>Howard #3
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:02 AM
>>Subject: Re: novices
>>
>>
>> > Back in the day, when Men were Men, and we walked five miles to and
>> > from
>> > school up hill, both ways! The novice was limited to 75 watts of CW,
>> > transmitters had to be crystal controled, and you had a year to upgrade
>> > or
>> > get out. Calls had an N in the prefix to denote novice. I for example
>> > was
>> > WN9top. The examination was the only ham radio exam that could be
>> > given
>> > by
>> > a ham with a higher lisence. Technician and general had the same
>> > theory
>> > test, but the code requirement was 5 for the tech and 13 wpm for the
>> > general.
>> >
>> > That is what it was.
>
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