"-=jd=-" wrote
/snip
For now, I have no interest in talking. Though, I have often
thought of working towards the General ticket just to see if I could pass
the tests, simply out of personal curiosity.

-=jd=-

I couldn't memorize 1 wpm of Morse code in the Boy Scouts, doubt that it is
going to happen 35 years later ;-) I'm on the air for the USCG and they
don't care if we know code or not. A smaller and smaller number of older
chiefs and officers who were hams for a hundred years still know code in the
guard - not much interest in it or radio in general by younger generations,
even when they operate them for a living. Computer networking is what
drives the communication business today, the radios themselves seem a small,
mostly forgotten part of it.

Sorry to have gotten off-topic with the longwire - for listening it is
certainly the most forgiving of any configuration imaginable.

Jack