Gary I feel you are right on ! The problem is very much people are just lazy and want everything on a silver platter.
Many feel it's a "right" not a "privilege " I can see by your call that you have been here for a while. I can still remember question number 5 on my test. "what happens to the plate (fig 5) if the screen resistor opens?" On my cold snowy day of testing before the FCC I had to drive from ST. Louis to KC to take the test. And get there before 8AM. Getting up well before sunrise and getting home well after dark. But did walk out with the ham and the first class radio telephone in hand. The hard part was driving back home to St. Louis with a fried brain. If I had to do it all over again. I would do it today not back in the 1970. What's next? Curb service? At 09:27 PM 12/15/2009, you wrote: > Hello Gary, > > Gone are the days of being proud of getting your General or > Extra Class ticket. Taking a bus to the FCC field office in the city making > a day of it. Now days just memorize the answers and your a Extra Class. > The system nowadays is so easy a Cave Man with a IQ of five, could get a > license. > Being a VE here also, I see testes that know the answers but nothing more > about them. > The basic problem people are just lazy and want everything on a silver > platter. > You should show these Tech's what they are missing out on, maybe they will > upgrade. > Remember you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. > Now flame time. > > 73 Gary WB6BNE >
