It is my understanding that the VE still has the option of asking for a
sending test of any or all of his/her candidates, as part of the whole cw
testing procedure. Check latest version of Part 97 to be sure, but I haven't
heard of any changes in the past several years...
Also, if you have ever seen the keys that the FCC used to keep around, just
for testing, you would know that it was a real test! I never had to do it, but
from what they tell me, if you could send good code with the FCC's keys, you
were really good at cw...
72/3 to all,
Mike KI6PR
El Rancho R.F., CA
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From: owner-qrp-l@Lehigh.EDU on behalf of Roger Hightower
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 1997 7:30 AM
To: Low Power Amateur Radio Discussion
Subject: Re: CW sending tests
v31ry@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> So, if the FCC inspector could tell when a person can't send worth
> beans, why can't a VE? I suppose they would have to be able to copy
> CW, and maybe THAT's a problem for some, eh?? Hmmmm...
>
There are some VE's around who got their Extra without having to pass
anything other than 5wpm CW. Got the rest through a handicap waiver.
I'll bet they couldn't tell good from bad, and doubt they could copy
enough of a sending test to be able to grade it.
ARRL/FCC is finally looking into that problem.
-- 72/73 de Roger N7KT Mesa, AZ Grid DM43cj NorCal 40-9er, NC38S, NC-40A, Cascade, OHR Explorer 20, 30M, OHR400, HW-9 NorCal 1099 CoQRP 176 QRP-L 62 G-QRP 9081 ARCI 8946 NE-QRP 383
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