Get Your License

Having access to radio communications in the event of an emergency can be essential, and may even save your life! Should your area experience a disaster, often cell phone, land phone, television and radio towers can go down. This can occur during a tornado, hurricane, flood or ice storm. Having an independently powered radio station can provide emergency communications, when traditional methods are not available. An amateur (ham) radio can be powered by portable battery, car battery, household electricity, or solar cell. 

Your amateur radio license is not difficult to get, and you license is for life. Once you get it, you never have to test or pay a fee again to maintain your license. The cost of the test is around $15.00

The following information will give you everything you need to get any of the three classes of Amateur Radio license. Keep in mind that you have to pass your Technician test before you can take your General test, and pass your General before you take your Extra. If you pass one test, you get to take the next one for free if you do it on the same day. Conceivably, you could pass all three on the same day, and a few people have before. Just getting your Technician license alone is a great way to get in to the hobby though, and there is a ton you can do with it!