They're probably talking about having an amateur radio license. You just need to pay $35 and take a test, nothing else is required. The test question bank is

They're probably talking about having an amateur radio license. You just need to pay $35 and take a test, nothing else is required. The test question bank is open so you can pretty trivially memorize enough of it to pass, though given that the tech license is mostly regulatory, that's equivalent to studying. http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed If you do that though, you get a bunch of bands from DC to light where you can argue with old people about gout and the government.