Is anyone else thinking about going back to old school tactics of the ham radio. With the build up of fediverse, Meta, flock, Alphabet and now LG tv’s now spying on us in our own homes, getting a ham license and building one of these from scratch would not only gain some different kind of knowledge, but maybe if internet/cellular networks were to fail or get “taken over” there would be a backup system of communication. The old string and can trick only works with your neighbors. I know there is some serious ramifications if you don’t get licensed and tap into ham radio frequencies, and it doesn’t take much to get one… I don’t know if ‘tuning that dial” is dying out. But we may need to. Maybe it’s a dooms-day prepper kinda thing for me to say, and I don’t consider myself one at all since I only have 3 rolls of toilet paper in my house albeit I am a Costco member. I’m just curious if anyone else that is pulling away from the fediverse is also thinking about learning the Ham radio Trade also?
At least over here, there are different requirements for CB and ham radios in terms of unwanted signals. Now, will anyone notice if you use a ham radio on CB? 99.9999% not, and our local enforcement body (unofficially) admits that as long as nobody complains, they don't really care.
Also, I just scrolled through an Australian ham exam. Maybe I got lucky, but 2/3 of the questions were useful knowledge to anyone who wants to do more than press PTT on a predefined channel on a store bought walkie talkie. The remaining third was mostly operating and "ham culture", but still. If that knowledge was common sense and high school stuff, we wouldn't need to hold exams at all :)