Phil wrote:
Guys in our club are charging a VE testing of $12. This seems
like blatant opportunism to me. The FCC says VE's can charge
a fee to recover costs of examination and apparently later
removed any limit to the fees (unless I misread something.)

It's $12 here, too...I just passed my General the other night, and
that's the going rate. I look at it this way: $12 isn't a heck of a lot
of money in this hobby (or anywhere else, these days), and a
license/upgrade test session is pretty cheap by comparison to what the
equipment can cost for even a modest station. Why put up a fuss about
it? Nobody's ever going to get rich from testing hams...

David - KC0EKV