rickman wrote:
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?

On Usenet, the best place for the kind of discussion you describe would,
without doubt, be ukram. Certainly no bickering or spite, no blog posts,
and whilst the moderators do seem to be quite relaxed about thread drift
(which is a good thing to be relaxed about, IMO) most threads stay pretty
close to the topic.

The best way to get ukram working more like how you'd want it to is for you
to put a post or two together and set off a discussion!

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