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What's a community that gatekeeps really hard? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ham licenses make sense. If you screw up, you ruin things for everyone, so you have to make sure everyone who transmits knows what they're doing. The problem is the elitism, and how many of them look down on anything more modern than vacuum tubes as not being real amateur radios.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 months ago

But from experience, hams are usually enthusiastic to explain anything related you might be interested in