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   From: usenet@stephenthomascole.com   
      
   Spike  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Your claims here directly contradict your earlier statements in the archive   
   WRT your license status. Are you lying (aka "pulling a Rich") now or were   
   you then?   
      
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