Getting a ham radio license is extremely easy nowadays. You can easily cram for it in a day or over a weekend. When I got my license, I took two written tests

Getting a ham radio license is extremely easy nowadays. You can easily cram for it in a day or over a weekend. When I got my license, I took two written tests and a Morse Code test (at the same time) and that wasn't even very difficult. It is much, much easier nowadays.