On 4/28/2020 11:35 AM, Mike Short wrote: > I got my Novice in 1972 in Boise Idaho. I don’t remember if there was an > FCC office there. Would they have gone to other cities to administer exams, > or did they have VE’s by then? My dad and I both tested together.
In that era there were traveling FCC exam sessions (usually quarterly) in such cities. The "VE" system as we know it started in the mid-1980a but if someone was more than 75 (or was it 150) miles from a quarterly examination point, the exam for a Conditional license that had General Class privileges could be administered by mail supervised by a designated ham licensee. Sometime in that era, Novice and Technician Class license exams were shunted off to designated ham licensees as well because the FCC wanted to try it out nationwide. Some of the FCC examiners were happy about that, some were not. Hard to please everyone. For a very short time, the FCC contracted with the US Civil Service Commission to give written license exams at selected CSC offices but that was never a success and did not last very long. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
