Kids are hams too (Ohio)

XENIA — Ham radios have no boundaries as there are operators all over the world.

There are also no age parameters. Just ask Riley Lorang.

The 10-year-0ld from San Jose, California obtained his tech license at age 8 and his general license last summer when he was 9. He actually started getting into it as a first grader but kind of let it go until the last couple years.

“I always wanted to play with the radios with all the buttons,” he said when asked what got him interested in amateur radio.

He definitely has had a great experience, communicating with hams from as far away as Russia, South Korea and Trinidad and Tobago, just to name a few. Lorang owns four radios, according to his father, John, who was licensed in the early 2000s.

“I spoiled him,” John said. “He just decided he wanted to do it.”

The younger Lorang had to obtain the tech license online due to COVID, but when in-person tests were offered he was one of the first in San Jose to sign up and be tested.

This is his first Hamvention.

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