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   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 29/04/2016 09:34, FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:   
   > "Spike"  wrote in message   
   > news:dogiseFu8t6U1@mid.individual.net...   
   >> On 29/04/2016 08:57, FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:   
      
   >>> 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.   
      
   With two exams a year, in May and December, it wasn't a real issue if   
   you took the CW shortly before one of them.   
      
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