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Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test
From: James Duffer <dufferjames@hotmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 19:35:06 -0500
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> From: Rick@DJ0IP.de
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 18:05:23 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test
> 
> Jim, is that true or is it jusa a bunch of wd4 [hot] air ?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of James Duffer
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:27 AM
> To: Ten Tec
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test
> 
> 
> I didn't have to take a sending test for extra.
> 73, de wd4air
> 

It is true, the only sending test was the Novice Test in 1967.  In 1976 at 
Memphis, TN the Extra Test was receipt of 5 character groups with a certain 
number of characters with no errors (I failed that one)  several months later 
it was to copy text and pass a ten question test that could be answered by the 
text, this I passed.  Never was their a test for actual sending.  So I didn't 
need a key, bug, buzzer with push back wire etc.  I thought this was true for 
the amateur extra class!  Now the commercial  FCC Telegraph Class I believe 
required a sending test.
73, de Jim wd4(hot)air  P.S.  I was employed by the FAA as an electronic tech 
(GS-856) at the time so I didn't even request a special call, that one still 
fit.
                                          
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