The last time I visited the FCC (in San Francisco) just before the VEC program started, it was a nightmare. I drove a hundred miles, parked my car at a BART (rapid transit) station, and took the RT to downtown SF, and had an unexpected 30 minute delay. I walked the four blocks to the FCC office and got to the testing office door just as the clock hit the start time of 10:00 am. As I started to enter, the door was pulled shut from inside and locked. And I was denied entrance to the exam. I was literally almost across the threshold of the door. You can't imagine how PO'd I was.
It couldn't have been a better time to be their last exam. I wanted to strangle the examiner. Got my Extra Class at the first VEC exam I could find. Bill WK6A Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2012, at 5:03 PM, WILLIS COOKE <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect that the FCC office could always give the novice test, but didn't > have many takers when you could get the test from a volunteer in the comfort > of his or your home. Everyone knows that the examiners would kill you and > eat you if you failed their test. That is why there was so much fear of the > office! At least it seemed that way from the fear shown by otherwise grown > men. > > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke > K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart > > > ________________________________ > From: Alan Bloom <[email protected]> > To: Bob Nielsen <[email protected]> > Cc: Elecraft List <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K-1 4-bander suggestions? > > On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:03 -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > >> Novice testing by volunteers started around 1956 or so. > > I actually took the Novice exam in an FCC office in 1968. I lived in > Gettysburg, where the FCC's amateur licensing office was. Probably it > was an informal arrangement with the local ham club. > > Alan N1AL > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
