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   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 29/04/2016 08:57, FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:   
   > "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.   
      
   Fail? What is this word 'fail'? And this was at a time when the modern   
   no-fail exams (that have the answer printed below the question) hadn't   
   been invented!   
      
   --   
   Spike   
      
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