K-1 4-bander suggestions?
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On 8/28/2012 10:36 PM, Bill Tubbs wrote:
> The last time I visited the FCC (in San Francisco) just before the > VEC program started, it was a nightmare. I drove a hundred miles, > parked my car at a BART (rapid transit) station, and took the RT to > downtown SF, and had an unexpected 30 minute delay. I walked the > four blocks to the FCC office and got to the testing office door just > as the clock hit the start time of 10:00 am. As I started to enter, > the door was pulled shut from inside and locked. And I was denied > entrance to the exam. I was literally almost across the threshold of > the door. You can't imagine how PO'd I was. I was the supervisor at the San Francisco FCC Office during that time and with all due respect for your memory of what happened nearly 30 years ago at no time did we do anything like that. We never locked any doors at 10am, in the face of any applicant or otherwise. The doors to the exam room were always open, and the only time that the doors to a separate code test room were closed was to ensure some degree of privacy and quietness for the folks who were taking the code test. Quite often we would run a "second session" for folks who didn't make the session on time or when we had more applicants than we had seats for. What triggered your bringing this up now? -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 Retired and loving every minute of it Work was getting in the way of my hobbies ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I can't speak to SF, but after driving 180 miles one way... to get to the office to take the test.... and doing chores way early.. (can you say before daybreak?)I arrived, at what I thought was "in time" only to bounce off the "locked door"... I rechecked the labels of the door... found the bathroom.. (you find that necessity, evenas a young teenager, after riding for nearly 200 miles)... came back out.. and was anxious to "getter done" after hearing voices and a door shut. Bounced off the locked door again????? what the.... ??? Just as I was about to knock.. the door magically opened.. and a solumn... unsmiling face... pointed at the NEXT door..that was plainly marked "ENTRANCE".... however the one I was standing at was marked with a "FCC" sticking out sign. ... ... Seems I had found the door to the equipment room. They waited for me... Can you imagine facing my father, to tell him that we had to come back? Well... I did have to do that... cause I missed one too many ques tions... NUTZ!But the next time it was a good trip... cause I got to go to "radio row" in lower Denver. --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy > I was the supervisor at the San Francisco FCC Office during > that time and with all due respect for your memory of what > happened nearly 30 years ago at no time did we do anything like > that. We never locked any doors at 10am, in the face of any > applicant or otherwise. The doors to the exam room were always > open, and the only time that the doors to a separate code test > room were closed was to ensure some degree of privacy and > quietness for the folks who were taking the code test. Quite > often we would run a "second session" for folks who didn't make > the session on time or when we had more applicants than we had > seats for. > > What triggered your bringing this up now? > > > -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > Retired and loving every minute of it > Work was getting in the way of my hobbies > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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In reply to this post by Mike Morrow-3
Could you give a little more info on your "foam tape" suggestion.
I have noticed some vibrations with my K1 when a loud station is heard. Where exactly do you put the tape? How thick of a tape did you use? Thanks so much for the help. Stan AE7UT |
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Let's let this OT post rest for now in the interest of increased list
SNR. End of thread. 73, Eric List Moderator --- www.elecraft.com On 8/29/2012 11:18 AM, Dale Putnam wrote: > I can't speak to SF, but after driving 180 miles one way... to get to the office to take the test.... and doing chores way early.. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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In reply to this post by Phil Kane-2
I was under the impression that a station license must have a US Address where they can be contacted. I have sent mail to several of
these licensee's and received my mail back as addressee unknown. Is this not a violation of the licensing regulations? If so why do we continue to give non US citizen's with non US addresses, licenses and continue to license them? I see many many KH0 callsigns but sure don't see much activity with all of those Ham stations in KH0. 73, Tim Herrick, KQ8M Charter Member North Coast Contesters [hidden email] AR-Cluster V6 kq8m.no-ip.org User Ports: 23, 7373 with local skimmer, 7374 without local skimmer Server Ports: V6 3607, V4 Active 3605, V4 Passive 3606 -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Phil Kane Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 2:02 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FCC exams On 8/29/2012 11:09 AM, David Cutter wrote: > My only experience with the FCC exam is at my club here in the UK: we are > one of the few places in the world outside the USA that offers exams on > demand. We had a candidate in from the UAE last week: he made the trip, > added a little site-seeing then flew back. That's dedication. As a now-retired long-term FCC field manager I have personal reservations about a non-US citizen who is a non-US resident going to a non-US location to get a US ham license. I know that it's done (particularly by JAs) but something just doesn't sound right to me. Then again, what do I know? They didn't listen to me much when I was on board and found such anomalies either...... I have a long-expired license from what was then a DX country where I was a multi-year resident on a job assignment with their Ministry if Communications, their equivalent of the FCC. On my last visit some years ago the Ministry told me that they will not reactivate it unless I immigrate, even if I come for visits. But then again, they have never reissued the call sign either.... -- 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:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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In reply to this post by Bill Tubbs, WK6A
I took my first FCC exam in 1960 for the General (and did not pass
the CW exam). This was in Detroit in an old office building with austere gov't issue "everything", including the examiners. The CW test was the old five random character test of which 1-minute must be perfect copy. Many years later (1982) I re-took the General exam at the FCC office in Anchorage, AK. This time the CW test was ten multiple choice questions about the clear-text CW that was sent. One only needed to pass 7 questions. I passed. I took the Advanced a month later with ease (I had passed the Second Class Radiotelephone in 1971 so the General was easy). In 2000 I took my Extra before my local VE and it was only the written test as they had lowered the CW requirement to 13wpm. I joke that I have "the Slow-Code Extra". The FCC examining was definitely harder in my estimation. There are better technical questions on the newer exams, though. The Second Class was technically way above extra. Glad I took it when questions were still about vacuum tubes. 73, Ed - KL7UW 1958 Novice - KN8MWA 1959 Technician - K8MWA 1971 2nd Class Radiotelephone 1981 Radar Endorsement 1982 General, Advanced - AL7EB 2000 Extra - KL7UW ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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