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Scope of the term "Amateur"
"rickman" wrote in message ... The term "amateur" is often applied to people who have obtained a license to use radio equipment for communications. Is this term inclusive of those who don't obtain a license but use receivers for various uses? I have been looking into design of receivers in the LF to ELF frequency ranges. Is this part of "amateur" radio? =============================================== I would say no. Can we term such people radio experimenters, please? There are certainly radio experimenters who neither need or want to hold licenses to use the amateur bands and I have NO objection to their choice of what they want to build and try. I think the folks who hold ham licenses can legitimately lay claim to the moniker "radio amateur." I wish language had the same certainties as, say, physics. It doesn't. Language has wiggle room and we're stuck with it. "Sal" |
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