On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 21:58 -0700, Phil Kane wrote: > The only ones at the agency who welcomed the privatization of > exams (both ham and commercial) were a number of secretaries
The first time I took the 2nd Telegraph my steely eyed examiner was a very nice woman (Seattle office). I showed up to take the exam with an electronic keyer and she laughed at me and said I could set that aside and use their hand key if I wanted to take the exam. (Evidently, a bug would have been acceptable but I didn't even own one and couldn't have sent with one anyway -- I'd been using a keyer for far too long.) So I copied the 20 WPM without flaw and then started pumping out the CW on the hand key with what had to be the world's worst fist. I hadn't used a hand key in 20 years! About half way through, she said - and I quote: "That's just not fast enough". <GASP> So I cranked up the speed and she somehow managed to get a minute's worth of text out of the gibberish I was sending and passed me. Actually, I think she just took pity on me. Heh.. Yeah, I liked the old FCC. 73, -Doug, W7KF _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
