TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    RW> DS>>   I've had several other hams tell me that the only reason they   
    RW> DS>> learned CW was to pass a certain license element, then they   
    RW> DS>> never touched a keyer again.   
      
    RW>> That's true here. I could have passed the XC 20wpm test, but saw no   
    RW>> use in doing so because the technical part of that test was over my   
    RW>> head.   
      
    TW> I was exactically the Oposite. the Theory was not a problem. It was   
    TW> the Code that killed my test. Which of course one had to pass First   
    TW> to even taek the XC test itself.   
      
   Now days you don't have to take a code test if you're still interested in   
   being an XC. Dunno if the FCC office is still on University Ave, but its   
   only a few minutes of your place.   
      
      
            R\%/itt - Happy New Year 2013, Ya'all!   
      
      
   --- GoldED+/W32 1.1.5-31012   
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