Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

I got my General in late 2024, but haven't done much with it. Collected a few HTs, built one little 2m-specific antenna, but I'm a bit embarrassed to hit Transmit when I'm not sure I've got everything configured right to not intrude on other repeater users.

I had two atypical goals with it:

- If I could present a certificate that says "the Government admits that I know something about how RF operates" maybe my irritating brother would acknowledge me when I tried to explain that Wi-Fi multipath concerns no longer apply when we plugged his machine into a hard-wired Ethernet socket.

- Being able to brandish "the FCC allows me to build a 200-metre antenna tower in the backyard" as a counterargument when the local HOA hassles me about the weeds that apparently have evolved beyond vulnerability to the stuff they sell at the local home centre.

It feels very "bifurcated" as a hobby -- you either do 2m/70cm stuff with little $100 handhelds, or you start doing outright construction projects to deal with antenna sizes, and spending four figures to explore HF.

I hold a general license in the US. I started 2m and 70cm with a cheap Baofeng but eventually CW caught my interest and now I design and sell a semi-open-source Morse Code trainer on https://katnisslabs.com/ for folks looking to learn Morse Code. It's been quite the journey!

From India and in the process of getting one pretty soon. Been reading and preparing for the exams!

KG7SYA - sometimes found on the intertie

https://www.k0tfu.org/repeater-systems/intermountain-interti...

I am one of ~61300 licensee holders in my country of ~85 million inhabitants.

We now have 3 classes, I hold the "highest" class, A, but I'd still suck on the air, mostly because I'm almost never on the air.