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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