Ham radio is a nearly impenetrable world but I feel like getting a ham license and some solid understanding of radio hardware and protocols might become very important with the way our world is going. The lack of really solid English language instruction makes the relatively inexpensive hardware
That was the reason I got the Baofeng! But then the house flooded, stuff got packed away (and much has stayed packed).
Ahhhh. My house and my extended family members’ homes all flooded in Katrina and that was part of my desire to learn about ham radio. Here in Colorado there are actually clubs that meet and so forth. In the mountains you can always tell the ham vans (massive whip antennas mounted outside & ride low
because of all the equipment mounted inside.
a bit of a mindfuck though NGL