TW>EV>I learned about Ham Radio in the Autumn of 1956 and hadn't heard   
     >EV>about SSB until a few years later.   
      
   TW>I learned about Ham Radio in 1948 while taking a course in High School   
     >on "Radio Electricity". Getting a ham licence was an option in the   
     >course but while I could pass the Test I could not master CW. I tried   
     >several times later i nlife but it just did not clinck with me. Later I   
     >learend because of my TITWAL lack of having any rythum sensibilities I   
     >might as wel give up which i did. While I did become a NO Code Tech in   
     >1992 I wited that long as I was one of those that beleived the NO Code   
     >Tech's woudl ruin Radio.   
     >In hindsight I think I was right and am sadly disappointed in the   
     >Community for cranking out mindless Hams in One day Ham Class   
     >sessions. In a 0800 and after 7 hours of reading the questions and   
     >answer over and over you are tested. Most pass the test but don't have   
     >the Foggiest Idea about what ham radio is all about.   
      
   Tom,   
      
   I took the Amateur Extra exam sometime around 1997.   
   There was a FCC Employee giving the tests. iirc   
      
   I passed the Code part but flunked the Written part and went up a   
   Grade from General to Advanced.   
      
   I haven't taken a test since then, although I thought about it   
   recently.   
      
   I grabbed a file off ARRL's site about the Amateur Extra test   
   some months ago even though I knew another series of questions   
   was going to be issued a few months later.   
      
   I did look at it a bit and thought a lot of it was over my head.   
      
   Never have got a ROUNDTUIT to grab the newer Question file yet.   
      
   Be A Good Lid!   (That's what my friends always told me)   
      
      
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