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   From: g3vKi@turner-smith.uK   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:dogiseFu8t6U1@mid.individual.net...   
   > 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!   
   >   
   Fair comment, I just took the precaution of sitting the RAE first.   
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