Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Steven Zopfi asks, When did you get your amateur radio license? Why did you decide to get this and are you active? What is the process to get licensed?

I got my ham license a few months before I started traveling. I have a uhf/vhf radio, but I currently live in an apartment so I can’t really set up a rig and an antenna.

I never was very active because I began traveling soon after I got my license. I still have my radio, but it is still in storage.

I let my license expire earlier this year just because I found the renewal process really difficult online.

Getting a ham radio license has gotten pretty easy compared to how it used to be.

From what I understand, and I’m 100% positive there are people in the audience more qualified than me to talk about this, everything is easier now including the test to become certified to talk on high frequency bands.