AMC : Amateur Radio Assessments

[VK6RO]

All this new system seems much more complicated than when i first got my license.

Exams were held by P&T dept 2 times a year either at state P&T head office in perth or local post office  [ we could take it or leave it]

Then wait up to 3 months for the results. [which i did when i did full call at local post office]

Then once we received our certificates we can apply for a callsign with P&Tdept and wait...

I went into the Perth P&T office and they lady showed me a school kids excercise book with a brown paper cover containing all the available callsigns as well as the allocated callsigns.  [no computers] and she said take your pick ... so i did...

3 letter full call signs were not available in VK6 at that time, they came in soon after.   [all the 2 letter calls had not been allocated and you had to take one]

BUT

I lived more than 160km from a capital city, so i could make an appointment with the dept to sit an exam anytime at the Perth dept office.

I did this for my novice exam.

I  sat in a room with a radio inspector at Perth office with nobody else there and did theory, regs and cw .

Now days it looks more complicated to me personally

thank you

graham vk6ro

e&oe