Be careful what you wish for...a Ham license has "no value" so the VE's can only charge their "actual expenses" for administering the test...here in the east it is around $15...ProMetric probably wouldn't let you walk in the door for $15.
The FCC is no longer in the "exam business" so it doesn't want to spend any money developing tests, keeping them current, administering them or "certifying" the testers...Ham Radio is a "self policed" holder of valuable spectrum...by administering their own exams, hams are showing the responsibility exists to have the privilege of holding RF spectrum. I just went to the ProMetric site http://www.register.prometric.com/Index.asp and ran through some of the pricing, the Microsoft tests are $60 and the SunSystems are $500 I appreciate our VE's (and they flunked me on my last unstudied, dry run at Extra) LW --- In [email protected], Nate Duehr <n...@...> wrote: > > Side-comment: As a pilot and IT person, I've been taking tests for both at > professional testing locations like ProMetric now for at least a decade. > > With the removal of the Code, I've always wondered why the FCC hasn't gone > the way the FAA did, and dropped the need for the VE's altogether. Just send > people to the various "testing centers" around the world, and be done with it. > > Even most of my other volunteer organizations have moved the majority of > their testing online (to their own websites, but those are open-book tests... > so no need to have a test proctor, like the professional testing facilities > have, and video cameras recording you). > > -- > Nate Duehr > n...@... > > facebook.com/denverpilot > twitter.com/denverpilot >
