Going to Ham Radio outlet on Iliff in a few minutes. One of the guys who works there (Russ) I think lives in Elizabeth and is the comms expert for the prepper group he belongs to. He suggested the ARRL Technician level study guide for me, which I picked up. He didn't recommend the General book as much - said if I just take the General practice exams on line (EHams, for example), Id be fine if I did a good reading of the Tech book - which I did. If he is there today, going now to ask him what the next step is for me. I really don't care about all of the traditional ham stuff - contests, making friends around the world, etc. More concerned about SHTF comms.

One area that did concern me a bit was about RDF (radio direction finding), which the ham community has some contests around and also uses to track down "offending transmitters". In times of peace, thats all fine and good, but in SHTF has some dangerous applications...nuff said.

I should have my call sign in a week or so, which I'll post.