Ham radio awash in rhetoric....
I've been monitoring HF ham radio for years, mostly in the good-ol-boys band, aka 80meters in the winter, and 40 meters most of the year - in my neck of the woods, I can listen to folks from about Pa to Fl, to Puerto Rico and Texas. Basically most of the eastern seaboard into about Tenn and west to Tx, south to PR (on occasion).
Gotta tell you, I have never heard, in decades of listing, the stuff I heard about the govt, and the President last nite. I have never heard the activity on various frequencies in those bands either. Seems like every Ham out there had something to say, none of it good concerning the big wigs in Washington, DC. I wont repeat it here, but some of it was fairly frighening. You gotta figure that these hams are mostly a bunch of rual folks, because they gotta have room for antennas that are 40 feet and more in length, most of the time on a pole that rotates on the top for directional use. Just country folks, with country ways and country mores. Read between the lines.
For those interested - I run a pair of IC-75's and an IC-78 (all band xmt version of the IC718), but right now only have a couple of barely sloping longwires, not really good for transmitting, so I listen. Also run a Lowe HF-150 (with their preselector and audio unit) and its by far the best "SW listening" rig I've ever come across. Its sort of like HiFi for SWL.
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