Hi Bob, I don't remember the lady, but I sure will never forget Mr Cline. He was a piece of work!
I went back to see him about 6 months later when I took my General. Passed the code again, missing only 2 letters out of the whole 5 minutes and also missed 2 on the written. Not too shabby. My Advanced is a bit of a story. I had injured my back at work and was off for nearly 6 months. I was determined to accomplish something during that period so I deided to take a swat at the Advanced. It was the last day they gave exams at the Baltimore field office b4 the VE program went into effect. I walked into the exam room and they started sending code. I didn't need it for the Advanced since I already had credit for 13 WPM from my General, but I decided to copy it anyway. AAfter the test was finished, I asked the examiner what the CW was all about. He told me that it was the Radio Telegraph First exam with 25WPM code groups. I asked if he would mind checking my copy just for laughs. I had only missed one group out of the 5 minute run! I asked if I could possibly get credit for the Extra code test and take a swipe at the Extra written. He said no, that the extra code had to be 20 WPM Plain text. RATS! At least I passed the Advanced written. 73, John, W4AWM ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ______________________________________________________________ AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
