"Bill Sohl" wrote in message
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Perhaps. Yet anyone who could come up with a doctor's
note could get a medical waiver. Such notes were never
hard to get.

But in the overall perspective waivers were used only by
a relatively small percentage of new hams. In the few VE
sessions I assisted in I don't recall ever seeing one being
used. Was the waiver process abused by some?
Probably, but it wasn't a wide practice at all.


I only saw two cases of waivers being used. One was my ex-husband and I
personally knew how severe his problem was. Naturally I was not a VE at
those sessions. The other case was at a test session where I was taking my
Extra exam. Someone did come in and present his waiver.

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Yep. FCC also reduced the written tests at the same time
and closed off three license classes to new issues.

I presume you mean the FCC reduced the number
of written tests as opposed to the overall
difficulty of the test material since the syllabus for
the now three remaining test elements did not change.


The syllabus for the Extra class license most certainly did change. The
material that had formerly been on the Advanced license was rolled into the
Extra exam. However, due to timing issues there was a very short window of
time where anyone upgrading was taking the Extra exam that did not include
that material as the question pool took a while to revise.

The syllabus for the Technician also changed although not as dramatically
and again timing issues came into play so that there was a window where the
exams had not yet been updated. But it was revised to cover the material
that had been on the old Novice exam as well as including the Technician
material.

The only syllabus that was unaffected was that of the General license.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE