(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , "Dan/W4NTI"
writes:


Us kids who lived virtually within sight of the Custom House had it
made in comparison to the older folk who had 8/5 jobs, we had what . .
three month long summer vacations? The big annual kid crunch at the
FCC office came around Labor Day when kids got home from the shore
just before school started. Very tight window of opportunity. There
was another window of opportunity around Thanksgiving weekend which is
when I took both of my early tests. I guess the Test Room had
different operating hours then. Or maybe I just sed to hell with
school those two mornings and done the do.

73 de Jim, N2EY

w3rv

(Brian Kelly) wrote in message . com...
(N2EY) wrote in message ...
In article , "Dan/W4NTI"
writes:

Us kids who lived virtually within sight of the Custom House had it
made in comparison to the older folk who had 8/5 jobs, we had what . .
three month long summer vacations?

Heck yes, said that in me post. Coupla tokens and good walking shoes
was all ya needed.

The big annual kid crunch at the
FCC office came around Labor Day when kids got home from the shore
just before school started.

Those of us who did not spend summers at the shore had even more
opportunities. Of course there was the 30 day retest wait....

Very tight window of opportunity. There
was another window of opportunity around Thanksgiving weekend which is
when I took both of my early tests. I guess the Test Room had
different operating hours then. Or maybe I just sed to hell with
school those two mornings and done the do.

It was prolly kids like you and King George who caused FCC to change
the rules in '54 so that all Novices and Techs were done by mail,
regardless of distance.....

73 de Jim, N2EY

Those of us who did not spend summers at the shore had even more
opportunities. Of course there was the 30 day retest wait....


Did anyone ever get caught showing up say a week early for retest?
Today you'd
have computers that could spot it, but back in the old days did they
bother to check?