You don't need a HAM radio license to hear broadcasts from Malyasia anymore.

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Bringing your friends home to show off a new Ham radio or your great-great-great grandfather's rebel flag probably won't boost your popularity in high school.

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He's part of a big volunteer Ham Radio network that operates when the hurricanes come close to land.

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Arthur Collins, a 22-year-old ham radio junkie, launched the Collins Radio Co. in 1931 in the basement of his Cedar Rapids home.

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