I went to electronics school in the 60s, 1968, I applied to the fccc to 
take my second class license test and wanted to go to the first class 
and was refused.  They refused to give me a waver to have the test read.
  I had my congressman go to the fcc and he finally got igh enough that 
the guy said that is how it was and he didn't give a damn.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Mon, 3 Jun 
2013, Harvey Heagy wrote:

> This guy sounds like a real loser.  It is my understanding that the FCC at
> one time allowed us to take the first class license, but then changed their
> mind.  In the early 70's, there was a woman named Mary Jane Keener who lived
> in Iowa at the time who wanted to take it.  The NFB was trying to help her,
> and among other things pointed out that there were blind people who held the
> first class license for a long period of time.  When the FCC threatened to
> revoke all those outstanding first class licenses is when they filed suit
> and eventually won.  Of course that was in the days when the NFB was truly
> an advocacy organization before it attempted to redefine advocacy for its
> own purposes and began worshiping the federal goose that laid the golden
> egg.
> Harvey
>
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