In the US it is a very food idea to get FCC liscensed. The ham bands are worth several billion in bandwidth. The ham community is self policing and a liscense is your first education. You can connect with your local community and liaten to their chats to learn a lot of lingo and protocol. Kinda like Bitcoiners
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Sounds like a rabbit hole!
Oh my fren, it is. A little cultish, but in an old guy way. With a liscense you can set up you own WAN, run IP over VHF and the SIGINT stuff is its own rabbit hole fo sho
I guess this would be a sure sign Iām heading over the hill. Iām sure my wife would be thrilled to see me tinkering with radio equipment! š