On 2011-05-03 10:10, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
Ok side note on Irony here, the rules use to be you could not use the air-waves for ANY commercial talk or communications. So the old timers on my local repeater ( again I worked only 2m and 70cm) would ENFORCE that rule. Thus ALL you could really talk about was radios, to a 24 year old that got boring really fast, thus another reason for me to drop, nothing to talk about.
That sounds like "repeater politics" rather than an actual FCC rule. Certain repeaters have one more more "repeater Nazis" that enforce the rules, some of which can be obscure. One of the things I got quite irritated with was being told I had to get off an "open" repeater during certain times of the day because it was "mobile time"; thus if I was on a base station rig, I shouldn't be on the repeater now. ?!?
All I'm saying is that this isn't so much of a "ham radio" problem as it is a problem with a particular organization which happens to run a repeater.
And this kind of organizational problem with politics concerning repeaters leads hams to start doing "jamming" on the repeater, whereby the repeater starts having things come out of it that are specifically prohibited: music, profanity, rebroadcast of TV audio, etc.
This is all the "hind end" of ham radio, though, and is thankfully the exception rather than the norm... but it does occasionally happen.
But even if those rules are still enforced, we could talk Linux/geek (like at dinner) for hours without breaking the rule. Just funny that now there are topics that fit the draconian FCC rules
It's particular people or organizations that are draconian; the FCC rules are generally reasonable. All of the relevant FCC rules hams need to know are part of the licensing exams, so if you study for the test you'll see for yourself that what you ran into wasn't an FCC problem but rather a problem with a particular organization acting draconian.
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