Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 month agoI think many people are unaware that you don’t need Morse anymore tbh. This makes the license extremely easy to get, but the knowledge you can get from ham radio is off the charts.
FYI, it’s not HAM (not an acronym)-- just ham. Named because the people fucking around with radios were “hamming it up”, back in the day.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They dropped the morse requirement because people just stopped taking the test
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Which “people”?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Human people. My source is the old ham dude who gave us the ham exam I managed to bungle and haven’t gotten around to retaking.
He was the type who used morse code at gigabit speeds with a funky looking sideways key