I still have my Advanced license, son his General, but neither of us are on the air. Tech has changed so much that I would be totally lost now.
73 de KF4MA
I have kept my Advanced ticket as it is the ONLY class that proves you did the code ;-)
You can be an extra and not even know how to send a morse SOS call....
I also use morse with microcontrollers... I can hear the text without using something like a crappy 1602 LCD...
.....sadly, I have to agree.....was first licensed as a Novice in 1961 but let it expire...could not get the 13 WPM code to upgrade to General....got back into the hobby in the early 1980s...but the technology just far outstripped my ability to even understand it, so I am totally inactive now...I could not even understand most of the articles in the ham radio magazines I subscribed to....at the end, they went straight from my mailbox to my recycling bin.....