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comsec wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:48 pm Before the current three licenses there was the Advanced class exam. That one was pretty hard and there were to many questions to memorize the answers for the formulaic questions for Reactance and other technical calculations. 13 wpm code exam too.

The questions have become more relevant in the later question pools for newer operators. Best bargain around having access to all of that spectrum!!!!

I took my General and Advanced exams on the same day in 1977. The Advanced was the hardest test by a wide margin. The general opinion was the Extra written exam was easier than Advanced. I would have taken it, but 20 words per minute code was a major hurdle! I knew I'd never get to that level, so I never tried. I was reluctant to get my Extra a few years ago because I hated giving up the increasingly rare Advanced ticket. I did it so I could serve as a VE for all exams.

Chas.

Ruark wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:13 pm All they need to shut down ham radio is some kind of precipitating event to use as an excuse. For example, somebody sets off a bomb, and investigators find out they planned it using ham radio. Pow, it'd be shut down in a heartbeat.

Shutting down ham radio would not be easy at all. Hundreds of thousands of transceivers exist and they don't have to operate at fixed locations. If we ever get to that stage, the entire country would be at war anyway.

Chas.