• comador @lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      They prefer the term Hams and love to remind people (in morris code of course) that not all heroes wear capes.

      Hams are responsible for helping out in just about every natural disaster, war, power outage and anything else where a cellphone signal cannot be had.

      In truth though, hams are just a bunch of likeminded nerds with a love of the airwaves.

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        Fun fact! I’m studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators’ sloppy work ‘ham-fisted’. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born

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      It’s mostly just 2 or 3 MAGA zealots trying to pretend to be a, “disinterested third-party denizen that doesn’t believe the mainstream, so they can’t make a solid judgment on Trump or his actions until they have a dinner conversation with him in private.”

      I’m so very tired of shills and cultists.