I DID met you at the holiday house, for the first time. You passed your extra a
few years later after a failed attempt while you were at SCARC. I also remember
meeting a women at the holiday house who was the first wife of Mac's best
friend who lives/lived up on the ridge in Collier. Yes Ron, you are getting old
as your memory fails you. Think r-e-a-l hard.
Ron Notarius <wn3vaw@verizon.net> wrote:
Ah Curt, since that occurred about 2 years before I moved to Pittsburgh,
joined Steel City, and met you... somehow I don't think that's quite
possible.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Curt"
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class license
>
> And I remember seeing you there, smiling, on that very day!
>
> Wow, we are getting old....
>
> Curt/k3ey
>
>
> Ron Notarius wrote:I can still remember walking out
of the FCC's Pittsburgh-area test session
> at the Holiday House in Monroeville, over 20 years ago, thrilled that I
had
> upgraded to General, and having a half-dozen people wave a Bash book for
> Advanced under my nose, laughing and claiming that if I had only bought
and
> memorized the book, I'd have walked out with the Advanced instead.
>
> Maybe that would have happened, maybe not. But I decided to learn the
> theory the "hard" way, rather than memorize test answers. That worked for
> me -- to each their own.
>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Caitlyn M. Martin"
> To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment"
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 8:49 PM
> Subject: [TenTec] Extra class license
>
>
> >
> >
> > --- Ira Franklin wrote:
> >
> > > And the statment "all those new extras who
> > > memorized the test" that was the problem that
> > > incentive created
> >
> > You know, when I was first licensed (gasp!) 21 years
> > ago people complained about those who "Bashed" their
> > tests. Same song, different day.
> >
> > (For those who don't remember, Dick Bash published
> > books that allowed people to supposedly memorize what
> > they needed to pass the test.)
> >
> > 73,
> > Caity
> > K7VO/8
> >
> > Caitlyn M. Martin - K7VO
> > http://www.mizuhoradio.com/personal/k7vo
> > Blog: http://k7vo.blogspot.com
> > ARRL QRP-ARCI #11018 ARS #445 G-QRP #11577 AK QRP #637
> >
> >
> >
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