On 3/29/2016 6:51 PM, Mike Morrow wrote: > I passed the Second Class exam almost 40 years ago, but my old study > books for the exam indicate that the tests listed above were in place > even before WWII. AFAIK, the only change occurred in the early 1990s > when the FCC began giving credit for all of the above if the > candidate held an Amateur Extra license.
That credit was only for the code requirements (which I took advantage of) not for the written elements which were different from the ham exam elements contents. The Telegraph exam contents remained the same as they were in the 60s (or earlier) up until last year, the only change being was that diagrams no longer had to be drawn after the testing became privatized. >That, of course, wasn't even remotely equivalent...I guess the FCC just got >lazy. No comment. I was a FCC code examiner for three decades and lazy didn't apply. > I took several ham Morse exams at the FCC in the late 1960s and early > 1970s. Contrary to some claims otherwise, I do not ever remember the > 13 wpm test being random code groups on a ham exam. That is far more > difficult than plain language to a ham new to Morse. Code groups were never part of ham exams at any speed. ---- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
