How Do You Obtain A Ham Radio License?
“Welcome to the third section of this part on ham or amateur radio. This segment is going to be dealing with: How do you actually become a ham radio operator? Well, here we are in the shack of N7QJM. You have to be licensed, first of all, in order for you to operate a rig, such as this here. In order to do so, you can use one of three methods to become an amateur radio operator, or a ham. There are three basic licenses that one can get within the amateur radio community, and they are the Novice Tech, which is kind of combined now (there used to be five licensed classes but now there are just three), Novice Tech, then the General Class, which is what I am here, and then the third is the Extra Class licensee and that particular individual has pretty much carte blanche or complete services. For each one of the classifications or license grades, you have to prove your skill level, your knowledge of amateur radio, the frequencies and a couple of other things that are requirements for you to
