Subj : Wannbe HAM
To   : Joe Delahaye
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Wed Sep 28 2016 12:05 am

 >   Re: Re: Wannbe HAM
 >   By: Daryl Stout to Joe Delahaye on Mon Sep 26 2016 12:42:23
 >
 >DS> Twice, I've had a female candidate literally break down into tears. One
 > of
 >DS> the other VE's said "you are among friends". While we want them to pass
 >DS> the exam, we want them to do it LEGALLY.
 >
 >DS> Amazingly, one examinee (who had let his license lapse) literally tried
 > to
 >DS> bribe us into certifying the exam fraudulently!! We obviously wouldn't
 > do
 >DS> it, and I reported the individual to the Volunteer Examiner
 > Coordinator,
 >DS> and they can turn it over to the FCC...who can just "ignore" the
 >DS> Certificate Of Successful Completion Of Examination (CSCE), if they
 > feel
 >DS> the individual has
 >DS> a "character issue".
 >
 >DS> We tell them that "if it takes you a dozen tries or more to pass the
 > exam,
 >DS> even if just barely...you have as much right to be on the air as
 > someone
 >DS> who aced it the first time. And, once you have your license and
 > callsign,
 >DS> it's nobody else's business what your score was, or how many times it
 > took
 >DS> you to pass the exam".
 >
 > This if true.  When they changed the rules, I happened to be stationed
 > in our
 > capital city of Ottawa, working at National Defence HQ.  The DOC (at the
 > time)
 > which is now Industry Canada, was almost around the corner from where I
 > was
 > living.  I had my license a week later <G>
 >
 >
 >DS> To that woman who failed, another VE said "the guy who graduates dead
 > last
 >DS> in medical school, with a D Minus, is STILL a DOCTOR"...to which I
 > quipped
 >DS> "But, I wouldn't want them doing a prostate check or a pelvic exam".
 > She
 >DS> crossed her legs, and everyone busted out laughing!! :D
 >
 >
 > LOL
 >
 >
 >
 >DS>> One time, he made the mistake of asking for "testees" (instead of
 >DS> The Volunteer Examiner (VE) Teams are usually all male, but I know a
 > few
 >DS> female VE's. The fact remains is that while amateur radio is a male
 >DS> dominated hobby, the women "clean our clocks" when it comes to making
 >DS> contacts. The
 >DS> best example I heard of was the Radio Amateurs Club of Knoxville,
 >DS> Tennessee; during Field Day Weekend. This female licensee (not sure if
 > she
 >DS> was single or married) had a sexy, sultry voice (whoo hoo!! (hi hi)),
 > and
 >DS> she said the phonetics of the club callsign, W4BBB, was "Women Four
 > Big,
 >DS> Blond, And Beautiful". The loggers almost couldn't keep up with the
 >DS> contacts!! :)
 >
 >DS> Indeed, I think if you had a Field Day or Contest team with just women
 >DS> at the mics and the men logging, it'd be "GAME OVER".
 >
 > There is another reason for that.  A woman's voice carries much better
 >
 >
 >DS> JD@> I have heard of this happeneing more then once. It has over here
 > as
 >DS> JD@> well.
 >
 >DS> While they no longer have to do the Morse Code, studying over 1700
 > total
 >DS> questions for 3 exams for a possible 120, and passing all 3 exams, is
 >DS> still quite an accomplishment.
 >
 > I'm not sure if you have to write both basic and advanced here, or just
 > the
 > advanced to get the advanced license.


Both, can be at the same time, though as long as Basic is done first.  Ditto 
for CW.



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