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January 20th 04, 10:35 AM

In article ,
(Hans K0HB) writes:

(N2EY) wrote

Until the 2000 restructuring, an Extra
required passing both the 50 question
Advanced written *and* the 40 question Extra.

You must be new around here.

Yep - only been an Extra for about 34 years.

Many Extra's (me, for an example) never took the Advanced written
exam, and my Extra exam had 75 questions, not 40.

"Many"?

There were fewer than 5000 Extras in the mid 1960s. Today there are well over
100,000.

And yes, for time, (1953-1967) there was only one written test to go from
General to Extra - because FCC wasn't giving out Advanceds in that time period.

So what you're telling us, Hans, is that you only had to take a single written
test to go from General to Extra, while most of the rest of us had to take two
written tests.

Moral: Pays to get there early.

73 de Jim, N2EY