Re: Re: Wannbe HAM   
     By: Daryl Stout to Joe Delahaye on Mon Sep 26 2016 12:42:23   
      
    DS> Twice, I've had a female candidate literally break down into tears. One of   
    DS> the other VE's said "you are among friends". While we want them to pass   
    DS> the exam, we want them to do it LEGALLY.    
      
    DS> Amazingly, one examinee (who had let his license lapse) literally tried to   
    DS> bribe us into certifying the exam fraudulently!! We obviously wouldn't do   
    DS> it, and I reported the individual to the Volunteer Examiner Coordinator,   
    DS> and they can turn it over to the FCC...who can just "ignore" the   
    DS> Certificate Of Successful Completion Of Examination (CSCE), if they feel   
    DS> the individual has    
    DS> a "character issue".   
      
    DS> We tell them that "if it takes you a dozen tries or more to pass the exam,   
    DS> even if just barely...you have as much right to be on the air as someone   
    DS> who aced it the first time. And, once you have your license and callsign,   
    DS> it's nobody else's business what your score was, or how many times it took   
    DS> you to pass the exam".   
      
   This if true.  When they changed the rules, I happened to be stationed in our   
   capital city of Ottawa, working at National Defence HQ.  The DOC (at the time)   
   which is now Industry Canada, was almost around the corner from where I was   
   living.  I had my license a week later    
      
      
    DS> To that woman who failed, another VE said "the guy who graduates dead last   
    DS> in medical school, with a D Minus, is STILL a DOCTOR"...to which I quipped   
    DS> "But, I wouldn't want them doing a prostate check or a pelvic exam". She   
    DS> crossed her legs, and everyone busted out laughing!! :D   
      
      
   LOL   
      
      
      
    DS>> One time, he made the mistake of asking for "testees" (instead of   
    DS> The Volunteer Examiner (VE) Teams are usually all male, but I know a few   
    DS> female VE's. The fact remains is that while amateur radio is a male   
    DS> dominated hobby, the women "clean our clocks" when it comes to making   
    DS> contacts. The   
    DS> best example I heard of was the Radio Amateurs Club of Knoxville,   
    DS> Tennessee; during Field Day Weekend. This female licensee (not sure if she   
    DS> was single or married) had a sexy, sultry voice (whoo hoo!! (hi hi)), and   
    DS> she said the phonetics of the club callsign, W4BBB, was "Women Four Big,   
    DS> Blond, And Beautiful". The loggers almost couldn't keep up with the   
    DS> contacts!! :)    
      
    DS> Indeed, I think if you had a Field Day or Contest team with just women   
    DS> at the mics and the men logging, it'd be "GAME OVER".   
      
   There is another reason for that.  A woman's voice carries much better   
      
      
    DS> JD@> I have heard of this happeneing more then once. It has over here as   
    DS> JD@> well.   
      
    DS> While they no longer have to do the Morse Code, studying over 1700 total   
    DS> questions for 3 exams for a possible 120, and passing all 3 exams, is   
    DS> still quite an accomplishment.   
      
   I'm not sure if you have to write both basic and advanced here, or just the   
   advanced to get the advanced license.   
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