I tried to reach out to hams and got nothing. I don't like HAMs. I have a license and hated being in the community.
LEO was telling me they are making arrangements to work around outages if they happen. That was about all i could get from him. Reached out to my friends who work on the network backbone and they said it was stretched pretty thin. A surge might break things. But nothing catastrophic.
it's a cult. they all think they are elite assholes. It was super weird when i got my license. These weird boomers would come around and shake my hand "welcome to the club" (wink wink)
they also police the air constantly. they don't have anything better to do than list for someone breaking the rules and report them. And they hate new technology. software defined radios and cool new tools would make things so much better. They fight encryption instead of pushing for it against the gov. CA is basically shutting them off because they don't want to deal with them anymore.
take the classes. don't get a license unless you want to transmit to other hams. buy the gear and hide it and use it when people aren't around.
radio operators are super super dangerous. You can bring a city down with radios. Literally. Once you get a license you are on a list.
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version7 ago
Tell us more about the popo and the cell outages.
9NaughtZ ago
I tried to reach out to hams and got nothing. I don't like HAMs. I have a license and hated being in the community.
LEO was telling me they are making arrangements to work around outages if they happen. That was about all i could get from him. Reached out to my friends who work on the network backbone and they said it was stretched pretty thin. A surge might break things. But nothing catastrophic.
TwitterBannedIt ago
what did you not like about the HAM ppl? I'm not one, but have been wanting all the stuff.
9NaughtZ ago
it's a cult. they all think they are elite assholes. It was super weird when i got my license. These weird boomers would come around and shake my hand "welcome to the club" (wink wink)
they also police the air constantly. they don't have anything better to do than list for someone breaking the rules and report them. And they hate new technology. software defined radios and cool new tools would make things so much better. They fight encryption instead of pushing for it against the gov. CA is basically shutting them off because they don't want to deal with them anymore.
take the classes. don't get a license unless you want to transmit to other hams. buy the gear and hide it and use it when people aren't around.
radio operators are super super dangerous. You can bring a city down with radios. Literally. Once you get a license you are on a list.