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    May 01, 2021 3 minutes

    Ham Radio Is Not a Game!

    Editor, CQ:

    I have been involved with ham radio since 1957. I have seen a lot of changes since then, some good, most bad. With incentive licensing and VEs, we have dumbed-down entrance requirements to what is supposed to be a technical auxiliary service to little or nothing. When 8-year-olds pass the Extra class examination, something is definitely screwed up.

    Somehow or other, luring young people to ham radio has become a holy

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