I am glad this story had a happy ending! CW is just so much fun I think this
person will indeed enjoy it, maybe even more than others who learned the code
more easily.
When I started the Elecraft CW Net I was very much a beginner. However I
ignored the fact that I was as unskilled as I was. I learned ;) I also got
better; somewhat incrementally. Please remember that we do slow down to
whatever speed necessary to make a contact. Just toss out your call at the ? K
and we will respond at the speed you sent it. Tom's style varies from mine but
he slows just as rapidly and is as happy to meet a new CW operator as I am.
CW - the original digital mode.
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim <[email protected]>
>Sent: Mar 9, 2009 8:11 PM
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Whaddayaknow... passed the Extra
>
>All of this reminds me of one applicant for his amateur license a few years
>back, a little before the FCC eliminated the CW requirement. He did pass the
>Technician test with no problem and could use that license. He then took and
>passed the General and the Extra tests. Both of those he passed. He still
>needed the CW element. He would show up at the test session I helped with
>each month and try at least three or four times before going home to study
>some more. The last time he came to the session, he said that he really had
>to pass the CW at that session because his 365 day window would expire on
>Saturday (the test session was on Thursday). An hour later the VE that
>administered the CW part of the tests came back in with the new operator and
>said that we had a new Extra.
>
>73,
>Jim KD5VXH
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