"garigue" wrote in message news:u%uqc.75539$xw3.4174734@attbi_s04...

There have been many a VE out there who has taken his
significant other out for a "night on the town" after a VE session.

As a reward for putting up with the demands of being a VE. Paperwork,
lots of extra stuff about the house, spending a good part of the
weekend at some hamfest or other giving tests to strangers for not
much more than a couple of donuts......

Why
would some guys drive for a hundred miles to "take" a test when tests are
locally offered ???

Lots of reasons. Most of the VE sessions I know of are part of a
hamfest, so two things get done. Timing of the tests is another - if
someone is a "morning person", taking the test in the evening is
setting oneself up for failure. "Local" tests that are scheduled at
inconvenient times don't do the testee any good.

Dare I say shenanigans ....... ??????

Got any proof? Not aspersions on the character of unnamed persons, but
actual solid proof of wrongdoing? If so, tell Riley - FCC does care
about such things. If not, why besmirch the efforts of thousands of
honest volunteers?

The VEs who do the grunt work of actually giving the tests didn't
invent the system and they don't make the rules. In the 20 year
history of the system, only a tiny handful out of thousands of VEs
have been found guilty of any sort of wrongdoing in connection with
their VE activities. Perhaps an apology to the vast majority of honest
VEs is in order.

Yes, I wish FCC would do all the testing, and that the tests were
secret, etc., etc. But that's just not going to happen any time soon
because it costs $$$.



73 de Jim, N2EY