Laura (I think - whoever took the meeting minutes) asked me about Morse testing at the last meeting. I asked Jim about it shortly thereafter but spent the weekend and a few days taking care of my wife who unexpectedly had her appendix out Satuday. Anyway, here's what Jim said. More in a bit. Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim Copeland To: Peter Laws Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 15:33:06 -0600 Subject: Re: Fw: Amateur Radio Testing, January 11, 2007 I have about 5 microcassette tape players with individual headphones that I use. On occasion, I have given the same version to everyone who wanted to test for CW and played it through a loudspeaker. I've found most people prefer the individual cassettes though. We've re-recorded each version of the Element 1 tests onto a separate tape so each individual person has access to only a single version. Also, there is no rewind button on the player: tapes have to be taken out, reversed, and reinserted and then "fast forwarded" to get back to the beginning. That alone stops anyone from fiddling with the playback. I also have a couple of plugs that split the earphone jack so two headphones can be used at the same time to allow a VE to monitor the recording. At one time, when recordings were played through a loudspeaker, I had one VE copy so that we could answer any complaints by the applicant that the tape didn't play what we graded. (There was an ARRL test tape a few years ago that had an extra sentence in the tape that was not in the transcribed copy.). I expect we'll have 4 or 5 this session who want to take Elem 1 just as we had a few who worked hard to pass code at 20 WPM to get their Extra under the old standard. Still no notice in today's Federal Register. We gonna get anyone from the OU Club? Jim -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Ranked 10th in PC Magazine's 2007 Top 20 Wired Campuses + Computerworld 2006 100 Best Places to Work in IT -----------------------------------------------------------------------------