How to enable SysRq key?

When I look in sudo sysctl -a I see kernel.sysrq = 1 in the output. This tells me it should be working.

To test, I run echo h > /proc/sysrq-trigger but nothing happens. I've tried this in a terminal emulator as well as a TTY. I was expecting to see some help text.

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