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

Kc2zzq

KA9DGX since 1979

I do. I'm not sure I like exposing my home address by providing my callsign with my HN account (something to think about for other posters).

My father was pretty serious about this as a hobby - SP7DRV - had shortware CW and voice connections with pretty much all the coutries, remote islands (when there was an expeditions) and some countries that do not exist anymore so his tally was more countries than there are in the world. Personally I prefer the convenience of fibre connection + TCP/IP but I get that in a time of hypothetical crisis or war this could prove useful. War in Ukraine shows it's more Starlink + Internet rather than HAM radio but there's still a use case.

I hold an Extra Class license... the old 20 wpm kind. The cool thing is, I got my extra back when I was 19 years old and it set me up for a great tech career since I understood RF.

Not going to dox myself here putting my callsign in a post.