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In several forums, I have seen ham radio mentioned as a place to take conversations that result in bans from social media sites. It's false that those bans are a result of speaking about conservative topics - unless the topic is glorifying or planning violence, calls to arms, harassment of others, or spreading hate.

We are a unique hobby, granted a unique privilege and trusted to use our own judgement and skills when we build and operate radio transmitters. That trust means many transmitters available to hams are frequency agile and can be tweaked to operate out of band. It also means that we are trusted not to use encryption features of radios that are designed for the commercial band

Just saw a new Ossoff ad. More of the wishy-washy "We need to come together to fix it" BS.

No matter what you say, the ultra-focused attack ads will tag any solution as "radical socialist". You HAVE to do more than say "We're going to support small business and it will be better". Say HOW. Point out that it's not socialism. "Low-interest loans aren't socialist - America used them to build X and Y and Z. Science isn't radical - We went to the moon and built the Internet because of our researchers." Say "If Perdue thinks I'm a radical or a socialist, he's doesn't know what those words mean". or "My opponents would call a church or a food kitchen "radical socialist". "Do you think high

A place for members of r/HamRadioTech to chat with each other

There has been a big increase in moderator-selected "news" posts in this sub. Does anyone else find that quite noisy, and prefer to see mostly "real" posts from community members?

I feel like this isn't the place I go to for a local "news content" feed

Looking for a used FT-8900R. Please message me! (prefer message, not "reddit chat")

Seems like there’s not much else subject matter.

We get it, you received a picture. But a picture gallery of weather images doesn’t make a great technical sub

What are you doing to ensure a pay off in the short term?

I have an unused ticket. PM me now (classic not reddit messenger) to take it

The Geminids peak this weekend. (https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/#Geminids)

Meteor trails reflect VHF and UHF - if you have an antenna you can point at the sky, and especially if you have an all-mode rig, try to make some contacts!

Here's some info from the ARRL http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST%2520Binaries/nt0z.pdf

and don't forget WSJT-X was built for meteor scatter well before FT8 became its most popular mode! see https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/MSK144_Protocol_QEX.pdf