That autismal old man audience

petition for #ham-auts

but seriously, I don't understand ham autism

It's like chatroulette for old men

You bounce off the ionosphere and randomly talk to some person around the world

It's a lot less cool now a lot of stuff is digitally encrypted, would be cool if I could listen to police

It's also useful for prepping, most of them are paranoid people with bunkers

Like what is the "ham radio license" thing

Is it like illegal to use ham radio without permission or does it even work

you can listen without restriction

http://www.arrl.org/what-is-ham-radio

Transmit without restriction mostly

You get a callsign in the end

You can listen as long as your rig isn't so powerful it disrupts others

Transmitting is the issue

I' m yet to be convinced that anyone under the age of 45 uses ham radio

uh

make that 65

Welcome @anon!

where is @zambz to start the interrogation

Why not cb though? Its dedicated for that kind of use right?

good luck actually talking to anybody on CB though

truckers all use cellphone now

CB is just guys blasting their equipment as hard as they can, way over fcc reg

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@Transience#0182 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwmiZleqCg best prepper/ham video ever

still makes me laugh

Prep uranus

baofeng recommends getting the upgraded version for like ~$6 more, but i think you'll be fine getting either one

you might need to buy a data cable if you want to actually use it for prepping

so you can name channels n shit

That video just gets progressively autistic 👌

BF-F8+ is the model to get

@Transience#0182 that guy has a series on surviving a nuclear bomb