[RCSE] ham license -- off topic

2004-02-11 Thread tony estep
When I got my first amateur radio license as a teenager, back when there were sunspots and the bands didn't go dead at dark, the pinnacle of hamdom was the Extra class license. In those days it required a fearsome code test, 30 wpm I think, and a hard written test made more difficult by the total

Re: [RCSE] ham license -- off topic

2004-02-11 Thread Brian Smith
Congratulations Tony...I did my extra in about 1988 and I had to do 20WPM morse code...The whole test was tough, but worth the effort... Brian P Smith AKA W4BPS But last night I finally bestirred myself to drive down to the Cliff Branch library where