The spirit of Ham Radio is doing the technical things for
yourself.

Anything else is CB Radio, perhaps in its insidious form of
the CBer-Masquerading-As-A-Radio-Ham

Perhaps those who replied below are closet CBers - did they
buy their rigs off-the-shelf and do they send them back to be repaired?

"Charles Brabham" wrote in message
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"Bill Gunshannon" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Airy R. Bean" writes:
How about being a _REAL_ Radio Ham and writing the
software for yourself?
What does writting software have to do with ham radio?
There is some connection there. Admittedly, the idea that you have to be a
programmer to be a "real ham" is pretty stupid, but that does not take
away
from the fact that many good hams are programmers.