EV>TW>I learned about Ham Radio in 1948 while taking a course in High School   
   EV>  >on "Radio Electricity". Getting a ham licence was an option in the   
   EV>  >course but while I could pass the Test I could not master CW. I tried   
   EV>  >several times later i nlife but it just did not clinck with me. Later I   
   EV>  >learend because of my TITWAL lack of having any rythum sensibilities I   
   EV>  >might as wel give up which i did. While I did become a NO Code Tech in   
   EV>  >1992 I wited that long as I was one of those that beleived the NO Code   
   EV>  >Tech's woudl ruin Radio.   
   EV>  >In hindsight I think I was right and am sadly disappointed in the   
   EV>  >Community for cranking out mindless Hams in One day Ham Class   
   EV>  >sessions. In a 0800 and after 7 hours of reading the questions and   
   EV>  >answer over and over you are tested. Most pass the test but don't have   
   EV>  >the Foggiest Idea about what ham radio is all about.   
      
   EV>Tom,   
      
   EV>I took the Amateur Extra exam sometime around 1997.   
   EV>There was a FCC Employee giving the tests. iirc   
      
   I don't rembember when thwey changed to the local volunteer examiners   
   but YES back in those days oen did have to go to an FCC Office and take   
   the test under theri Supervision.   
      
   EV>I passed the Code part but flunked the Written part and went up a   
   EV>Grade from General to Advanced.   
      
   EV>I haven't taken a test since then, although I thought about it   
   EV>recently.   
      
   EV>I grabbed a file off ARRL's site about the Amateur Extra test   
   EV>some months ago even though I knew another series of questions   
   EV>was going to be issued a few months later.   
      
   EV>I did look at it a bit and thought a lot of it was over my head.   
      
   EV>Never have got a ROUNDTUIT to grab the newer Question file yet.   
      
   I have that old ROUNDTUIT, Sevreral years ago I bought the Extra Licence   
   Package from Gordon West in person at a ARRL convention here in San   
   Diego.   
   Never even got around to opening it and now the New Question pool has   
   taken effect!!   
      
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