CB radio is alive and well across the country and around the world! It takes next to nothing to establish a station. Interested? Study into antennas, ground plane and Standing Wave Ratio (SWR). Any creativity that aims at these three goals will skip across the country with a well-functioning, old-school stock mobile radio on both AM and SSB. And you might even be pleasantly surprised to discover a local CB community, right in front of your face! If not, start one. What is Freedom without talk around the Water Cooler?
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You can study for two hours to get the Technician license which is perfect for making contacts within a few hundred miles. Use a flash card system like Ankidroid. Tech license all you need to know is how not to break the law and how not to kill yourself or others. I got my General a few years ago which is needed to make really long distance contacts (global point to point) and that one took a LOT more studying, probably like 80 hours.
Extra Class amateur op since 2009 and volunteer examiner here.
General Class is worth it just for the HF privileges - wasn't too much harder for me. HF is a lot of fun (and can be very useful too - long distance comms with no infrastructure in between needed).
HamStudy.org and the ARRL license study books are both very good resources. QRZ.com for practice exams - keep going until you can hit 90 percent consistently, and you should be good to take the tests!
I have my General Ham License! My wife is interested in getting her Technican, it's easy