03-03-14 13:53 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Resurrected

 RW> {at}MSGID: 
 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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