OT: What kind of s**t can I start this AM? - Page 3

 

However, one of the test messages had a *trick* phrase in it, to fool
the would-be
novice into thinking that that the message was about a Kenwood radio.

Somebody once told me about another trick message, but I don't
remember what the trick was.

 


If you couldn't tell "Kenwood" from "Kenworld" at 5 WPM, you are
NOT capable of reading code.

But more telling - there haven't been standard test messages for the
5 WPM test for decades, right up to the elimination of the code
requirement altogether a year or so ago.  In the 1970s for the
Novice exams, and later for most other classes of license, the code
and written tests were administered by volunteer examiners (VE),
and they could use any material they liked so long as the requisite
level of code proficency was demonstrated.  But it was not at all
uncommon for misspellings and what you call "trick" phrases to
be inserted, to ensure that the testee was actually copying the code
as transmitted rather than just getting part of it and trying to "fill
in the blanks."  You were warned that this might happen in advance.

Bob M.

 
There must have been a lot of novices who couldn't read code then.

I breadboarded my own 80 meter receiver out of parts from surplus
stores about 25 years ago. I was listening to an exchange between a
guy who claimed he was a retard at a sheltered workshop and the other
novice claimed to be a physicist at
Livermore Labs, and neither one of them was good at keypounding.

They both frequently sent a string of . . . . . . . . 's to each
other.

It must have been the same VE at Long Beach, because another guy told
me exactly what the trick messages were, I just forgot about it before
I went down to take the test.

 5d1a6e46fd8e@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com:


  Tried to cheat and it didn't work...  Poor baby.

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  Give it up, Bob...  This pussy is just another product of the "It ain't
my fawlt!" generation.

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