In my continuing quest to learn everything that is both knowable and cool, I took and passed the FCC-mandated Technician class license test last Saturday. I got 32 out of 35 questions right, so I'm now an officially licensed ham radio operator. My call sign is KI4ZHB. (That's a capital 'I' followed by the number '4'.)
I studied online, with some Flash practice tests and various PDFs and Google searches. You can only transmit unidentified messages to remote control aircraft or to space stations. Remember that!
Anyway, to celebrate, I'm going to drag April to the nearest ham store (about half an hour away) one of these evenings to get a VHF/UHF radio. For our emergency preparedness, see.
(Don't tell her about the giant antenna I plan to build!)
Gimme one month, and I'll have passed the upgrade test for General, and maybe another month to Extra. Then I'll be able to broadcast to the moon!