[scojjac]

A friend and I were recently talking about working toward our General licenses! He put me on https://hamstudy.org and I already have a Baofeng UV-5R. I've used it to access some weather radio here in North Carolina.

I'm not sure about the community aspect, either, but I definitely can see the disaster preparedness value, especially after Helene's devastation.

[kweks]

Newly minted HAM here. HamStudy is excellent, but / and works very, very well with these "No Nonsense" guides: https://www.kb6nu.com/study-guides/

They are excellent - they're built around the exam questions, but structured in a way that you understand the mechanics behind everything.

I'd attempted my license before, but never managed. After finding HamStudy + those guides, got my technician, general and extra class within 3 weeks.

73!

[amatecha]

sweet, congrats! checked in on any local 2m nets yet? hehe :)