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   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 28/04/2016 23:32, FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:   
   > "Stephen Thomas Cole"  wrote   
      
   >> That fact hasn't come to light yet, but it is known that it took him *13*   
   >> years to get through the 12wpm morse test, so draw your own conclusions.   
      
   > I may be wrong, but I think he sat the RAE a couple of years after I sat   
   > mine. Since he's a year younger than me that would make him about 16, so   
   > can't have taken many attempts if he didn't pass first time. Dunno why   
   > the 12wpm Morse took so long though.   
      
   By Sideband's perverse logic - the only sort he seems to know -  I did   
   the CW in negative time by taking the CW test, then some time later   
   sitting the RAE. Both passed first time, of course, as would be expected   
   from a Class A who came up via the SWL route.   
      
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