"Richard Knoppow" wrote in message
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The First Telegraph required a year's service at a shore station
before one could take the test.

I earned my FCC first telephone in the mid 60s;
took the test in Boston at the field office. The tests were all
multiple choice--no schematic drawing or anything
elaborate. By the end of the sixties the market was
saturated with cram school wonders. We had one "engineer"
that called the chief out of bed at 3AM when one of the
"lamps" in the RCA transmitter went dark. Poor guy had
to drive in and change on the 4-400s in the RCA 1kW
night-time transmitter. He was scowling for the next
several weeks Those licenses were good meal
tickets for part-time summer fill jobs during high school
and college.

pete