Steve,
I've got a couple that are even better.....
My son passed his Tech exam on a Saturday morning in February of 1996, and his callsign was issued the following Tuesday, just like the situation you described. However, what makes it a little different is that the intervening Monday was President's Day, a Federal holiday!
A couple of years ago the VEs at our local hamfest here in the Dallas area made a special arrangement with the VEC (don't remember if it was the ARRL or W5YI VEC) to process the test results immediately on that Saturday and send them electronically to the FCC whose computer automatically processed them as soon as they were received. The new hams had their callsigns within an hour or two of passing their tests. Admittedly, special arrangements were made to pull it off, but it's still amazing, especially to a long time ham like me who had to wait six long weeks for his Novice ticket to arrive in the US Mail.
73, Jim K5JG
STEVE BALCH sdbalch@... [FT-60] wrote:
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I conducted one exam on Saturday about 9 AM; I sent it to ARRL before Noon, not-registered, just tracking. He had his call sign Tuesday morning. Fastest I have heard of.
73 KF4DAX
