K=D8HB wrote:
"Dee Flint" wrote


Wasn't it the council of VECs who made that decision? I believe that P=
art 97
does not specify how the 5wpm test is to be administered.


I think you're correct Dee. The FCC rules are silent on the form of actu=
al
examination:

=A797.503 Element standards.

(a) A telegraphy examination must be sufficient to prove that the examine=
e has
the ability to send correctly by hand and to receive correctly by ear tex=
ts in
the international Morse code at not less than the prescribed speed, using=
all
the letters of the alphabet, numerals 0-9, period, comma, question mark, =
slant
mark and prosigns AR, BT and SK.
Element 1: 5 words per minute.

Interestingly, the NCVEC has chosen to ignore the "ability to send correc=
tly by
hand" clause of the rules.

Back before VE days the FCC examiners often skipped past the sending
test too. It's been a long time and the details are fuzzy in my mind at
this late point but when I went for my Extra the examiner called off
the receiving test about a minute and a half into it and ignored the
sending test. Maybe that was when I went for my General . . ? One or
the other.


73, de Hans, K0HB
--
Come sit by the fire and warm your bones. Let's enjoy a warm bracing drin=
k and a
few tales. "The wind was picking up, clouds were rolling in, my hands wer=
e numb,
nose was running, I had to pee, and I was thinking of heading for the dock
when..."

.. . Mom hollered out the window "Don't you even THINK about peeing on
that bush and get back in here!"

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