As a ham myself - ka7nnx, (not a very good ham though), I found this interesting. Had to learn morse code to get a novice license back in the dark ages of the 1980s.
And as my grandmother was immigrating to America, she tried to board the Carpathia in 1912. No 2nd class available then, so she tried again next year. But if she had made that passage, that ship and voyage rescued the Titanic survivors.
I’m surprised there isn’t a HAM group in FR. I’m AF7RU. I run a bunch of BSA units, and we do classes that get kids past their Tech license. If they pass, they get a free radio. We can program them so they are on the same band plan.
They take them to summer camp and use them like you would cell phones, kibitzing back and forth over simplex.
Very fun to watch.
I passed my Technician license last spring so I could start integrating it into our Scout troop. I’m setting up my radio room and I can’t wait to get a nice antenna and link it to a good ratio that links to my computer. I have become fascinated with the visual representation of the traffic on the bands.