Perfek360

They have all kinds of uses like my dad always listens to the police scanner and the fire department and the emt's....he doesn't really talk on it toomuch though...i remember back when iw as going to get mine, (i think i was like 8 or 9) and back then you had to know morse code, but my dad was telling me you don't have to now

FooK

There's only morse code testing now in the "extra" license. There are two levels before that that are alot easier to acquire. I have a technician license, and then the next one up is the general license, which I'm told covers alot of frquency stuff.

The technician is easy to get, basically repeat the practice tests until you are getting high scores consistently, then go take the test.

Perfek360

i didn't know they had different levels. so what is the extent of your use with the technician license?

cberman

I forget what the actual terms are anymore, but IIRC, there are two different types of ham radios. Technician allows you to do it locally. Basically range is <50 miles or something. Other way is bounced off the atmosphere and you can talk overseas and such. I've only done the second kind once, as a guest on someone else's call sign.

FooK

There are several types of setups, 2 meter, 440, 6 meter, 10 meter, etc...

There are also ways to talk via IRLP using the internet to link nodes