"rickman" wrote in message
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From reading the newsgroups it seems to be mostly things other than
amateur radio. Some of the unmoderated ham groups have discussions of
many topics unrelated to ham radio, but often (if not mostly) they turn
into ugly arguments. The moderated group r.r.a.m can barely support a
technical discussion and gets a half dozen blog echos a day. You would
think it was some sort of RSS feed or something. Then there is u.r.a.m
with lots of discussions on nearly anything but ham radio but no ugliness
and no blog spam. Much of the on topic posts are specific to UK (of
course).

So where is a good place to discuss just plain amateur radio without
bickering, blog posts or tons of off topic stuff?

uk.radio.amateur has always been such a good place,, and still is
today if you kill-file The Three Amigos, reay, cole and tomlinson
and their Ilk of Oiks.