Tony P. wrote:
In article . net,
w4nti@get says...

"J999w" wrote in message
...

I passed my Advanced class some 15 years ago, now motivated to get the

Extra

while the code is still 25wpm (no problem).

Will there be questions from the General and Advanced question pools in

the

Extra exam, or just from the Extra class pool of questions??? Just so I

know

what to review.

John Wilke
K9RZZ
Milwaukee

I hate to break it to you...but..the code speed never was 25 (it was 20),
and it is presently 5wpm. So you won't have to take a cw test in any case.
You will have to settle for the extra light. Thats all there is.


Friend of mine got his license class upped to Extra when the highest
code speed was 13WPM. He had already taken element 4B but didn't want to
do the element 1C test and so waited it out. In the end, he got his
Extra when they watered down the code requirement.

I rattle him about this any chance I get. Having done the full route
(1A-1C) it give me a legitimate gripe.


As long as we are telling stories, I have a friend who went in for her
Tech, when it was 5 wpm and half of the General written. She passed the
code test, but with a twist: she was convinced to sit in and try the 20
WPM, just to get acclimated, so that when the 5 WPM came along in a
half-hour, it would seem slow.

She passed the multiple-choice 20 WPM code test! So she spent the next
12 months studying the theory, passing her Tech (that day) her General a
few months later, her Advanced, some months after that, and finally her
Extra, all within the original 12 months. Now she is just about the
best volunteer examiner you could ever have: she encourages people to
succeed.

I think you can accidentally pass a multiple-choice 10-question test on
code reception, but what she did for the written was a true test of
wanting to be a ham.

Names withheld to protect the innocent, or course.

Do you?

Dave
KZ1O