KH6HZ wrote:
...

None of my students express an interest in ham radio. The code requirement
wasn't a significant barrier to entry for them anyway, since the tech
license would yield all the privileges they require for working in the GHZ+
bands, where most of their interests (consumer electronics) lay.


That is difficult to believe. Most young men with engineering interests
"goof about" with electronic transmitters of one sort or another. Old
police/public service rigs, microwaves, old amateur equip., military
equipment, modified cb equip., wireless nic cards, etc., etc.

Lots of guys who retired from Livermore Labs retired here because of
reasonable property prices. Some of them serve as instructors, those
guys have a really great effect on the young men and women here.
Several are hams ...

Regards,
JS