I've enjoyed reading these.
I have a few stories, having taken the novice test in the civil defense
room at the local elementary school and the general test at the NYC FCC
office in 1966 as a 16 year old.
Dave Poppins, Mr. FCC NYC in my mind, was a legend as an omnipotent
presence in all things ham radio regulatory, lived in the next town over in
NJ where I grew up. My buddies and I wouldn't key down test our home built
transmitters for more than 15 seconds for fear he would show up out of
nowhere and bust us because we didn't have our novice licenses in hand yet.
My best story is taking the Canadian Basic test. Before buying VY2TT from
Robby, VY2SS, I did a multi-op with his gang. Robby was a Canadian license
examiner, so I arranged to take the Basic at a multi-op. I read the
material and took the multiple choice test. Robby came back a few minutes
later and said, "You better study some more!" and handed me the answer
sheet showing a score in the 30s. I was so embarrassed. Then the gang went
through the questions I "missed" and kept agreeing with my answers. After a
bunch, Robby realized he had been sent the wrong answer sheet.
The best part was Robby had an Advanced test and told me to take it. I told
him I hadn't studied for it and I didn't want to be embarrassed again. He
convinced me to take it and I passed. Having heard me copy code in
contests, he didn't bother with a CW test.
73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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