It is boring. I got into it because I did electronic warfare in the military. But it has its uses. Plenty of other stuff is boring and mostly useless, e.g. m

It is boring. I got into it because I did electronic warfare in the military. But it has its uses. Plenty of other stuff is boring and mostly useless, e.g. most of the raspberry pi stuff I've done. A $20 Google Chromecast or Roku is wayy less of a PITA than a rPi media center but I did it anyway to learn to hack it together. Same thing with a lot of radio stuff. And at like $30 bucks for a baofang and about a week or two of study for the technician license it's not a lot of cost or effort. So what would I do with it? Aside from a backup when hunting, just talkin w/ folks -- I'm in central Canada, so it's a far apart place with spotty internet access -- and I consider messing with radar tracking and even something more like a look-down-shoot-down style of radar, mostly as a hack to see if I can do it. Lot of demand for Radio Engineers if you want to do full-time cell phone or wifi stuff, too.