On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:52:42 GMT, robert casey wrote:

An FCC field guy (that you know of) decided that a wife
of a friend of mine needed to be retested on 5WPM code.
At the time (early 70's) the FCC test office rarely if
ever did 5WPM, and the examner had to dig up a 5WPM
paper tape (with punched holes). Seems the tape was
bad and the machine sent trash instead of code, but the
examiner himself didn't know code and decided that she
couldn't copy code and failed her. "Broken tape machine,
yeah sureeee....."

If it's who I think it is - someone who had a history of deciding
what other hams "needed" - he was a traffic handler and contester
who knew code very well. In that era the only FCC field folks who
were not required to be Morse-qualified were the clerical staff.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane