"JB" wrote:

there are all kinds of experimenters in all license classes

The Technician (only) was defined as an experimenters license (in the 50s).

This whole line is silly

That's what I said. All the Techs I knew then were mostly communicators.

BTW repeaters are old hat. Hams were doing...repeaters in the 50's.

Unattended repeaters were illegal in the 50s.