"Spike" wrote in message
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Not in the UK... We have a progressive licensing system here, in which
most people never progress at all. The level they qualify at is more
concerned with how to fit mains plugs - something that isn't required here
as moulded plugs have been compulsory for 20 years.

WHS

And the tragedy is that even those who pass at the highest level
can show no technical acumen whatsoever, to the extent that on Usenet
they join in sneering but without ever understanding any of the technical
content. We have one such person over in uk.radio.amateur who is currently
being shunned for his infantile outbursts of ignorance.