regarding a few of my local ham radio operators:

no, I wasn't being paranoid and am not paranoid. So I don't get my ham
liscence that I should have gotten since I had answered most of the questions
correctly.

So what? 1. Since that's the kind of people they are, I don't want to be
talking to them on the radio anyway, and definitely don't want to be hanging
out with them and don't even want to associate with them. and don't want to be
associated with them

2. Besides, there's plenty of other radio bands that I can get on, which they
can't do anything about, "Family Radio Service", "GMRS", "CB", "Murs",
etcetera.

And I can even legally operate one transmitter I have right in the middle of
one of the ham bands, without a ham liscence. (low power part 15), but they
can, of course, override my signal with the higher power that they're allowed
to transmit with, if they do.

So hah hah to them. I can legally transmit right in one of their ham bands that
they tried to keep me out of. I can't transmit as much power as them, but I'm
there. so to them: You can't keep me out of there. Unlike you, I'm legal.