Amateur Radio is cool because you can talk, send digital messages, tv and pictures and even text messages and emails for free to anywhere in the world with a radio, a computer (in some cases) and and antenna that you can make yourself out of spare wire. It’s really an amazing hobby that blows my mind daily! Not to mention you can run your radio off a battery when you lose power and still be able to communicate free of the internet and the cell phone network! Check it out, its pretty cool!