Comment Are you going to tell them. . . (Score 4, Funny) 60
that it's Ham radio, not HAM radio, or am I going to have to?
Ham Radio
Amateur radio is NOT about communication. It is about furthering the art of Radio Sciences and "international goodwill".
That communication happens is actually secondary to the stated purpose.
You aren't permitted to have many kinds of discussion over licensed amateur bands and the licensing bodies do occasionally issue infringement notices for crossing the line.
Gun toting nut bags have popped up in amateur radio forums lately proposing that getting licensed is a great way to get the gubbermint out of your speech. Oh, the irony. Get a license from the gubbermint to use a band which requires you transmit your gubbermint issued ID code regularly.
You apparently aren't a ham in the US. Hang out on 80 meters AM or SSB some time. Plenty of political nuts already there. Always has been.
Wrong. Multiple strains are now running around because so many idiots in America had covid parties and/or did not wear masks. Sadly, a number of these strains are actually easier to catch and deadlier. 1 new one is not stopped by the typical hand sanitizer OR current mask.
Actually, you're both wrong. There is only one strain of this Coronavirus. Many isolates, but only one strain. Source:
https://www.virology.ws/2020/05/07/there-is-one-and-only-one-strain-of-sars-cov-2/
can be passed from bat-fucker to non-bat-fucker over the airwaves.
I assure you, radio had *nothing* to do with this.
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