I'm active on all bands from 160 to 70cm, including all the WARC-79 bands and 60-meters. I studied for a couple months and polished up on my CW, and on my birthday that year, I went to the VE group in Auburn, WA - just for practice, I took the Novice CW and Written, passing both, then I did the General CW and Written, again passing both, then finally the 20-WPM Extra CW and Written, easily passing both! That night I was up late working DX on CW in the Extra sub-band, signing as WB7AWK/AEįinally, in December of 2012 I applied for W7UUU (very fun to send in Morse!) and the FCC ULS updated on December 11, 2012. I stayed in the ranks of General until June of 1997. So by the end of Summer 1975 I had advanced to General Class and the "N" turned to "B" - WB7AWK. I passed the 13-WPM test quite handily (it was 5-letter random groups back then - not "plain English" like in later years), then did the written at the same time.
That summer I again hit the FCC field office (this was before the days of VE testing beyond Novice!). Novice CW tests at that time were administered by Volunteer Examiners - so I took my CW test at C&G Electronics at 25th & Jefferson in Tacoma WA - the test was administered by Craig T. Larsen WA7HTN and I easily passed, then went too Seattle for the written.
Jt65 on 60 meters license#
I took my Novice class (5-WPM CW) test in December of 1974 but I didn't receive my actual paper license until March of 1975, assigned the callsign of WN7AWK. That will send me an email and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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