Feb 23 is the No-code date
How bad this is depends on how you perceive the goal of the exam, and
what you expect a newly-licensed amateur radio operator to be able to do.
Considering that the FCC lets us build or modify our transmitters, we at
least should pass a test to demonstrate that we are at least aware of
the responsibilities of not spewing RF trash all over the radio
frequency spectrum, messing up the bands for other users.
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