re: Does anyone still use ham radios?

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How hard is it to learn for someone who knows nothing about communications? Seems like a very good skill in times of disaster

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I knew nothing about it before Katrina. After Katrina, hospital staff were encouraged to become HAMs, they even paid for the testing. I became a HAM about a year later.

If you buy the book, you can pass the test, it isn't hard stuff at all. You don't even have to know Morse code anymore, which I think kept a lot of people out.

LC