[backpacker3]

Ham radio operators of course. I've always been fascinated by ham radio I studied to get my license a few years ago but there wasn't any places to take the official test that I could find. Today though I found out that a family friend is a ham and I got to sit in on a field day. There was solar activity so we could bounce rf waves off the atmosphere to reach almost anywhere in the world!! My friend was running off of 5 watts on a solar panel to test his emergency equipment and we could reach everywhere from California to Texas to Florida and New England parts of Canada and even a few ships out in the ocean!!!!
It was a ton of fun! He's going to find a testing location so I should be getting my license soon!