Yup, I am a ham. Got my license a few years ago. I made some steps toward getting my license years ago but the process plus the code requirement kept me away from it. Didn’t think much about it until a friend said that, besides being fun, it would be valuable whenever there’s an internet outage and would be really valuable if there was a large scale internet shut down. I do mostly digital modes.
I do mostly phone/ssb, have been dabbling in the digital modes the last 6 months. It’d be very cool to setup a sked to work digitally sometime....