wrote:

then what would have presented those people from simply losing
interest and moving on to those other things anyway?

They have...

If those people have lost interest and moved on, then they were never really
interested in radio despite getting their licenses, were they?


I thought you said your wife got you a ham license so she could keep
track of you.

I do not think I ever said that.


Yet so many of the Extras want todays written exam to be the
equivalent of an MSEE.

Can you enumerate for me who these extras are?