Wouldn't it be cool to have (whenever possible) a small station set
up at exams? Even a FT817 and a miracle whip antenna. Get the successful
testees the chance to get their first QSO as a new Ham. Start the
Elmering process right away. At that point the plain speech ham can give
their opinion on how to talk, and the HIHI ham can do the same, without
affecting the test process.


You'd need to have a stack of callsigns that could be handed out to the
successful test takers. Like the stack of license plates at the DMV
when you register a car you just bought.

Or a control operator could let the new ham without callsign try his
legs on the air, but it really wouldn't be his first real contact. He'd
use the control op's callsign.