In article , Robert Casey
writes:

I still think that the Technician license is fine as an entry-level
license and that the Technician exam isn't terribly hard - just an
extended version of the old Novice exam.

The Tech exam is what, roughly equivalent to an honors level high school
physics
exam and history exam (I mention "history' as that requires memorizing random
information, names and dates equivalent to frequency bands and such rules).
Not
the inner city non-honors public schools where if you can write your name you
graduate)... The Extra exam might be roughly equivalent to an exam for a 3
credit
college class.

Hardly.

NONE of the US amateur license examinations are any sort
of academic achievement diplomas or certifications. The FCC
was never chartered to be any academic organization.

Of course, if you want to believe in the fantasy that an extra
doing 20+ wpm morse is an "expert radio operator" in this
new millennium, that's your thing. Would have been fine in
the 1930s. Not now.

If you want to start an "electro magnet school," fine. It worked
for Gordon West.

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