On Mar 10, 1:43 pm, "Dee Flint" wrote:
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On Mar 10, 12:04 am, "Dee Flint" wrote:
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On Mar 9, 7:32 pm, "Dee Flint" wrote:
"K4YZ" wrote in message

You're shacked up with one of them, but in any case he's only a
Technician and ineligible to test you anyway.

Now we get to the root of the matter. Unless the rules have changed,
a
VE
(with the exception of Extras) must have a license class higher than
the
exams they administer. Thus the General class licensee can only
administer
Tech class exams. To get above Tech, he would most likely have to
drive
somewhere else.

The Advanced and Extras can administer Tech & General Exams. The
Extras
can
administer Tech, General, and Extra exams. If your data is correct on
the
number of licensees in the area, they could NOT have tested him for
General
unless there were also some Advanced class licensees around who were
VEs.
So it would seem that he asked for the impossible. No wonder they
would
not
schedule an exam for him.

Dee, N8UZE-

Dee, why do you even validate Robesin's remarks with a legitimate
reply?

He made an error that needed correcting (i.e. what tests Generals could
give).

He made other errors and accusations, i.e., "You're shacked up with
one of them, but in any case he's only a
Technician and ineligible to test you anyway."

Why did you legitimize his inuendo and accusations with your remarks?

Otherwise some readers might have ended up acting on this incorrect
information and been disappointed.

Dee, N8UZE-

Dee, how would we have "acted" on incorrect information? which
readers?

There is always the potential for that. Some General who reads this group
might have thought he could give General tests. The paperwork would have
bounced and then there would be a very irate Technician. Such would be
grossly unfair to the that applicant.

So do you think all hams are stupid, or just the ones that read RRAP?

Or a Technician might have been led to believe that a General could
administer the General test and become hostile when the General VE refused.

All this hostility! Where does it come from?

In today's world, these things can even lead to violence.

Dee, N8UZE

That's when you call in the RF Commandos.