[TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test

[James Duffer]

> From: Rick at DJ0IP.de
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 18:05:23 -0500
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test
> 
> Jim, is that true or is it jusa a bunch of wd4 [hot] air ?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of James Duffer
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 10:27 AM
> To: Ten Tec
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Extra class CW Sending Test
> 
> 
> I didn't have to take a sending test for extra.
> 73, de wd4air
> 

It is true, the only sending test was the Novice Test in 1967.  In 1976 at Memphis, TN the Extra Test was receipt of 5 character groups with a certain number of characters with no errors (I failed that one)  several months later it was to copy text and pass a ten question test that could be answered by the text, this I passed.  Never was their a test for actual sending.  So I didn't need a key, bug, buzzer with push back wire etc.  I thought this was true for the amateur extra class!  Now the commercial  FCC Telegraph Class I believe required a sending test.
73, de Jim wd4(hot)air  P.S.  I was employed by the FAA as an electronic tech (GS-856) at the time so I didn't even request a special call, that one still fit.