Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn’t the best idea lol

Tune into Citizen’s Band sometime if your country has one lol, it’s a mess but is entertaining

As long as harmonics are properly filtered

So, those harmonics I mentioned, for the FM broadcast band between 88 MHz and 109 MHz, they’re between 176 MHz and 218 MHz.

Guess what?

They’re allocated to other services, specifically television and digital audio broadcasting.

but I’m not convinced that it would “get folks interested in radio”.

People are put off of amateur radio because so many hams are extremely cop-brained and expect everyone should have to comply to century old rules and norms about how to operate otherwise it’s assumed that you’re just blowing up the spectrum

I am a licensed amateur and the only thing that changed from when I was unlicensed is that the boomers on the FM voice repeaters around me won’t yell at me for interrupting their conversation about their ex-wives or whatever now

Good RF circuitry has never been easier to make/acquire now that we live in the era of semiconductors

low power isn’t a thing. My legal amateur radio beacon uses 10 milliwatts and has been heard 13,945 km (8,665 miles) away.

Yeah and my WiFi router blasting 10 times that barely makes it through a couple of walls

Completely dependent on conditions and equipment

I can guarantee if you power up a “low power FM transmission” that the FCC will come and find you and rain hellfire on you.

Also, lmao, there have been some high-profile cases and they have the PIRATE act now but there’s still lots of pirate FM stations out there lol

Pirate radio is cool and good

Linux is based? Pls don’t talk to me or my wife’s IRC server ever again.

I uhh wasn’t literally about to go do this or anything…

SODA!!

PaX

Don’t go to harmful.cat-v.org and look at their political sections, worst mistake of my life

That’s really cool, especially people getting their licenses to help their community. Hoping you don’t have to encounter the kind of stuff I have, ever.

The bands are usually dead here too lol… except for the repeaters during the day

I’m hoping maybe the clubs and the hams in my city will be better

Would you lose your license for spreading leftist propaganda?

I’m not sure… as long as you aren’t broadcasting (something like a one-way signal, no communication, it has a specific legal definition but yeh) and are just talking to people it’s not explicitly illegal but you would probably get harassed and maybe have false complaints to government agencies made about you. Also in the US your callsign is associated with your legal name and address so people can come find you

I’m in and having my callsign permanently linked to my name and address makes me quite uncomfortable in the era of the internet tbh

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Better to be deadresting than undead like Unix

Plan 9 isn’t dead

It’s just resting

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