03-03-14 13:53 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <53150BCC.272.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW>  Brer Ed Vance wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Resurrected:   
      
    RW>> My 2nd Elmer was a friend of a friend, who gave me the   
    RW>> incentive to take the test for a Novice ticket, c1970 - WN6ABE   
    RW>> was a one year license with no renewal available, per FCC rules   
    RW>> at the time.   
      
    EV> Brer Roy,   
      
    EV> My Novice License had the same One Year rule.   
      
    RW> Did you upgrade before the one year expiration or did you skip   
    RW> the upgrade and wait intil later to do that.   
      
   Brer Roy,   
      
   I passed the Technician Test at Dayton Hamvention in May, one month   
   before my Novice license would expire.   
   I can't remember when the General License arrived that summer, wheather   
   it came before or after the Novice Ticket would have expired.   
   ----snip----   
    RW> An aside to your story, while I and a close friend were sitting   
    RW> in the FCC's exam room at their offices in San Diego c1978, we   
    RW> were taking the General code exam. The code test included a 10   
    RW> question test that asked about the content of the code that we   
    RW> had copied. One question stands out in my mind as 'the question   
    RW> that broke the camel's back'... The question was; how many   
    RW> watts did the sender say he was using?   
      
   The Code Tests I took in the late 1950's wasn't of the Q&A Type.   
      
   Back then to pass the CW Exam IIRC 65 characters straight had to   
   be written on the paper.   
      
   When I took the Amateur Extra Test it was a Q&A Test.   
   I passed the CW but failed the Written Part, and walked out of the room   
   with a Temporary Amateur Advanced License.   
      
   I only tried for the Extra because of someone who I felt was a bigger   
   LID than I am was always on the air bragging about his being an Extra.   
   -------snip---   
    RW> Another friend, sitting across the room from us failed that   
    RW> test (his 5th try) and hadn't gotten past Technician before I   
    RW> moved to Texas in 2004. When the code test was no longer   
    RW> required, I see that he has made it to Extra Class. I have no   
    RW> idea why, as he kept his old WB6xxx call sign and can't   
    RW> communicate in CW...   
      
   Before the FCC allowed Hams to keep their Call Sign no matter where   
   they lived, I kept my K4 call from Kentucky and because I had moved   
   to Indiana I got a Secondary License with a WA9 call.   
      
   When my folks moved from the QTH my K4 license showed I asked the FCC   
   to Cancel that License and make the WA9 call my Primary License.   
      
   In the 1970's or 1980's when I learned that I could exchange my WA9   
   license for a One by Three license without paying anything, I asked the   
   FCC for a 1X3 Call Sign figuring I'd get a K9 call and they gave me the   
   W9 call I have now.   
      
   73 de Ed W9ODR    .  .   
      
   ... I live in a quiet neighborhood, they use silencers   
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