When I took my first exam in 1951 ... in OKC, where the FCC came once
per
year ... there's no doubt (!) in my mind that I had to draw ... not
correct ... several
schematics. One was a Colpits (SP?) oscillator. There were also simple
essay
answers required for several questions.
When I took my Commercial Radiotelegraph exam in Tampa I corrected
errors in
several schematics. The cigar-chewing, fowl-smelling resident
examiner's name
was Neeb. "That's mighty fine CW, son". 'Twas enough to make a feller
smile (:-))
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Morrow
To:
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Sent: Saturday, 07 July, 2007 01:15
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Hate the word HAM
Bill wrote to John:
>I'm not sure what you are implying. I took my tests in 1980 under a
>steely-eyed FCC examiner, and they were multiple-choice back then.
The FCC ham technical exams were multiple choice when I took my first
one in 1968, and they had been at least as far back as the early 1950s
when my Dad took his.
The only FCC technical exams that were not ALL multiple choice was/is
the one for First and Second Class Commercial Radiotelegraph License
(both classes use the same technical exam), and even those exams are
still 90 percent multiple choice (or at least they were nearly 30 years
ago when I took the exam).
The reference in the original post may be to the fact that for several
years after the FCC dropped the "one minute perfect copy out of five
minutes sent" standard, they used multiple choice exams for the *Morse*
test after the sending was over. That didn't last long.
Mike / KK5F
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