Please add me as well. No license for me but I have 5 scanners and two base antenna’s. If nights like last night when weather spotters get activated the first channels I hit are the local Ham Bands. You find out info locally a lot more faster especially funnel cloud spots. If I lived in tornado alley I would consider a scanner a must have. Where I live though it’s just good a good thing to have just in case :>}
I personally think that SWL’s and scanner listeners can make as good or better than the usual ham. After all, we go by that golden rule - we mostly listen, and perhaps catch so much the others miss*.
My Technician test was fairly easy because of what I’d picked up on by listening for so many years. The General is next, and it won’t be too bad for the same reasons. (I dunno about the Extra, though).
*I know some of the minefields, such as 14.275 or 3.843. :)