One of the great things about doing ham radio in a park like this is the endless stream of kids that come up to ask you what you are doing.

"ARE YOU MAKING A TIKTOK?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO INTERNET"

"HOW IS THIS TALKING TO JAPAN"

Invariably the parents are as interested, but it's always the kids that are uninhibited enough to ask.

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@ethanschoonover

Is one still required to learn Morse to get a ham license?

@quantensalat @ethanschoonover

Oh, boo!

(I contend that knowing Morse constitutes a basic survival skill, since it is simple and entirely medium agnostic.)

(I do not, personally, know Morse. On my list of Things To Learn Someday Real Soon Now When I Have Time.)

@K7PJP @quantensalat @ethanschoonover

Isn't ham radio a standard fall-back communication channel when the more elaborate/highly technical communications infrastructures (telephone, television, internet) go down? (In disaster stories, at least?)

As to gatekeeping, I can certainly see where that could be the case. I've only encountered ham in third-hand, annecdotal form, so I'm not familiar with the culture.