In article , Robert Casey
writes:

"Look lid you still don't get it, I am well aware the CW test is gone, my
complaint still is the Give away Written."

So why are we all not extras, then? If the writtens are so easy?

Well, for starters:

1) Some hams are just not interested in HF.
2) Some hams are not in a position to have an HF station
3) Some hams are not that interested in the relatively small amount of
additional privileges an Extra provides
4) Some hams have lost interest completely
5) Some hams haven't yet heard about the rules changes, or don't understand
them
6) Some hams haven't gotten around to visiting a VE session

Note how slowly the number of Advanceds is declining. In the 42 months since
restructuring, their numbers have only dropped by about 15%. At least half of
that decline is expirations, so the number who have upgraded to Extra is pretty
small even though the 20 wpm code test is long gone.

73 de Jim, N2EY