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why do I need a license is the most common question that I get when I bring up this subject and on its face it's a good question and I want to address this one first first it's the law the FCC decided long ago to allocate different parts of the radio spectrum for different uses fire and EMS kit certain frequencies the police get others the military air traffic control FM and so on all get their own frequencies and lastly amateur radio is also assigned certain frequencies this is done for reasons of safety and to ensure that different uses do not interfere with one another while nobody's stopping you from breaking the law there are consequences if you transmit on a license frequency and get caught pretty big consequences second if you don't want to break the law there's no way for you to familiarize yourself with the technology in the practice of radio without being licensed if you buy a radio and keep it on the shelf and plan to figure things out after an emergency that's your choice but I will warn you that you might find out when it's too late that that was a bad idea so in order to use ham radio you need a license and this video will tell you everything you need to know about getting your license first there's three licenses available to amateur radio operators the technicians license the general license and the extra class license each license unlock certain privileges and you must get the technicians license first then you get the general then the extra if you saw our ham radio 101 video you know that basic communications are broken up into two basic forms short and long range if you missed that one head over and watch it first a technicians license is basically a license to transmit and utilize short range communications it allows you to utilize the very high and ultra high frequency line-of-sight communications with one exception a small portion of the ten meter high frequency band while it's possible to communicate worldwide suffice it to say that the easiest way to begin talking to the world is by getting your general license the general license opens up voice data and CW privileges on most high frequency or HF bands allowing you to talk to the world the extra class license expands the privileges within the general bands but with more bandwidth in order to get your license are going to have to pass an exam the exam for the technicians license consists of 35 multiple-choice questions taken out of a pool of 426 of these 35 questions you must answer 26 of them correctly to receive your license the good news is all of these questions are published there's a link below in the description to these questions these are the exact questions you will find on the test not similar questions the exact questions remember all that's required to...