Same. Rushed my way to Extra class license by feeding on EM fascination, enjoyed meeting some super-cool tech-oriented locals (in particular retired telecom eng

Same. Rushed my way to Extra class license by feeding on EM fascination, enjoyed meeting some super-cool tech-oriented locals (in particular retired telecom engineers) and then slowly faded out as the less-interesting but super-talkative people droned on about cats and grocery stores and their particular equipment. I went on to start learning Morse Code and wrote a little trainer program for it so that was fun as a brain skill but the HF bands from my urban townhouse can't get past the HV cables right outside my window and I can't be bothered to go set up a tree-based antenna in a nearby park very frequently. Even when I do get on HF it's impossible to find anything but contesting it seems. I heard ragchewing happens in Morse Code but never got good enough to keep up. The amateurradio subreddit seems like a pretty cool place to find like-minded people. Seems like cheating but you can get on there and ask people far away if they can hear you on certain frequencies, etc. The emergency preparedness element seems cool too but that's naturally populated by some personalities too. I guess that's humanity for ya.