These are but a few of the many diverse interests within this fine hobby. If you like to be recognized for your accomplishments, there are hundreds of awards available for doing various things in ham radio. Not all awards require so much effort. The list of awards is virtually endless. There are many clubs ranging from local clubs involving only the hams in your town or city to huge worldwide clubs with many thousands of members.
All clubs exist for hams to help each other in one way or another.
Most, if not all, clubs are eager to help the newcomer to ham radio. Ham radio is as diverse as life itself, and I could go on listing activities and interests for a long time, but don't worry, I won't. Barring some final fine tuning, there are now only three classes of license available to newcomers - Technician, General, and Extra. This represents a considerable lessening of the requirements to become an amateur operator from the time that there were six classes of license. Then gaining full amateur privileges involved a 20 wpm Morse code test plus considerable knowledge of electronics theory, operating procedures, and amateur radio rules.