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ham radio license holders in japan:

1994 ~1.3M

2025 340k (lots of old people)

and they dropped morse code from the exam requirements in 2011.





Ok? Just because there has been a drop in the number of licensees and the exam no longer requires Morse code wouldn't necessarily put Morse on a list of "methods of transferring information we may have lost historically that we don't even recognize".

At least in the US, ham radio is far from a dying hobby and Morse code is actively being learned by people of all ages.




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