Do you REALLY need that ham license?

[Marcus]

Well folks i'm 50/50 on this I dont have a license but have 2m and 70cm kit plus other freq comms gear i'm ex forces and have training for Signals so understand how things work and how to get the best out of an antenna but that is with military kit not ham radio gear

Like other bits of kit I think training is important so that you can get the best out of your gear that you may have spent lots of £$ buying and hiding the real value from the other half (pssst dont tell my wife)

Everybody plans and trains for their own shtf I do feel that comms for security both for my group and village is important so this year i'm going to get a license so that I can set my gear up and test it fully testing range and repeaters in my area

On the otherside of the coin part of me would like to keep under the radar and not let HMG know that I have the kit yes some folk will listen only others will want to talk but this site worked out a comms plan freq ect how many joe public will be using Ham gear I feel very little may be the 446 type but real radio kit not alot