In article , Dave Heil
writes:

By the way, radio amateurs are "ordinary civilians" who happen to have
passed a license exam.

No. They are self-defined exceptional people who can do things in
their imagination that ordinary civilians cannot or will not.

Some radio amateurs are so self-defined as to be superior to any and
all radio professionals.

Some radio amateurs are - by public display - arrogant control freaks
who like to imagine they prey on ordinary civilians.

So far you are batting 3 for 3. Well done. Not rare.

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