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   From: g3vKi@turner-smith.uK   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:doghcuFtvl4U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   The risk there was that the Morse Test was time limited whereas the RAE was   
   not. Had you failed the RAE you may have had to resit the Morse. More time   
   and, more importantly, more money.   
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   73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.   
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