Re: Apprentice?

In message <43ddb27d.191751609@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Jitze Couperus <couperus-eschew-this@xxxxxxxx> writes 

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The "City and Guilds" organization offered a number of qualifications
that you could sit exams for and receive an appropriate certificate,
usualy in some domain that had a legal requirement to be certificated.
Not necessarily related to apprenticeships, but maybe even self-study
or a correspondence course.

Two that I am familiar with (or was - memory fades over time) were the
Amateur Radio License and the Class B Explosives License. Both of
these were legally required before you could "practice" your skill.
Both required a written exam and a "practical" where you demonstrated
your competence with a real project.

In the first case, I had to first diagnose and then "square up" a
radio transmitter so that it gave a clean stable signal, and then
transmit a Shakespearean sonnet in morse at (I think it was)
12 words/minute.


Are you sure about the practical exam for C & G Amateur Radio, Jitze?

When I took it in 1947 I answered a theoretical paper only. The Morse test was administered by the GPO then, u8nless you had a Service qualification for exemption.

Mike G3IJE
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M.J.Powell
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