On Apr 11, 3:33�pm, wrote:
On 11 Apr 2007 16:20:45 -0700, "AF6AY" wrote:
From: Dave Heil on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:27:14 GMT
AF6AY wrote:
From: on 10 Apr 2007 03:56:54 -0700
On Apr 9, 1:05 pm, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 9, 2:05 am, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 7, 5:31 pm, wrote:
On Apr 3, 1:34?pm, "AF6AY" wrote:
On Mar 29, 6:24?pm, Dave Heil wrote a typical

Words and their meanings are important, Len. *Hot-ham-and-cheese wrote
"according to Heil..." except that it wasn't according to me at all.

* Somebody else writes your posts here?

would n't that be an improvement in most cases

WE will never know, Mark. :-)

You wrote that you obtained an Extra out of the box, but you keeping
trying to skip over the word "right". *You used it when you told us that
you were going for an "Extra right out the box."

* Tsk. *The phrase "Extra [right] Out Of The Box" is a colloquial
* amateur radio one referring to one who takes and passes ALL
* test elements in one exam session. *It was used BEFORE the
* 2000 US amateur radio Restructuring.

and given it was Your statement Len obviously you are the most unlike
one to know it means (unless we go deep Pych terms of terms

for myself I never doubted that assuming as occured we both lived long
enough to see the end of Code testing that I would see you in short
order as Ham and possible an extra given tha mount of BS in the
combined question sort the frew prevelegdes of the several classes I
did have some dout youd make in one test session

I was worng about that

Hey, no sweat, Mark. I didn't decide until February 17, 2007, seeing
a very local test session available on February 25; I was busy with
other things on Friday the 23rd. For me it was just "cram time"
just like college days or the impossible-to-do-in-assigned-time-
frame work assignments...download the QPs from www.ncvec.org,
do a bunch of on-line practice tests (all of passing grades).

The FCC license grant was legal on 7 March 2007, taking just two
days more than my First 'Phone grant of March 1956...back in
days when there was NO privatized testing and I had to go 90
miles into the Chicago FCC Field Office to take all four test
elements for that. While "airmail" was quick back then, there
wasn't any relatively-inexpensive "overnight delivery" services.


I surely did, Len, but not 24/7. *I maxed out at ten hours per day, six
days per week.

* Poor baby. *Was the service rough on you?

* In the US Army all are soldiers...those not on authorized leave
* are ON DUTY 24/7.

yep and likely to be wgo from sleeping to work in a mater of seconds

True, but veteran battle-hardened, "I was in a country AT war" Heil
won't comment on that. He "maxed-out" on only 10 hours per
day, poor baby. I once worked 34 hours at a stretch on an
emergency (military) transmitter repair, breaks only for meals
and nature calls. I've worked 16 to 18 hours at a stretch in
civilian jobs, fortunately not often. Thank you, but I'll take
retirement any day...and the freedom to tell the control freaks
to "up yours" when they get into "command mode." :-)

Heil won't say what his "AFSC" was "a country at war." He
probably is too "maxed out" to admit it? :-)

73, Len AF6AY