I had dug out my boxes of tech supplies recently to show my kid stuff they could work with on the spare computer. And found the lost #GMRS radios.
That caught their eye, and we were able to charge them. They’ve been listening to it on and off. Today I helped when they’d found a net. I was able to confirm it was a repeater setup, the reported cities were to far away. I then found out which repeater/net it was, and looked up the details to join.
$50-100/year, and they don’t want to spend the money to join.
I gently pushed for them to keep learning the #HamRadio questions, and I’d pay any fees.