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It depends. I think the ham crowd skews older so there is a lot of misogynistic humor (which I enjoy) and a bunch of racist humor (which I don’t enjoy). Overall it’s definitely not boring, especially if you enjoy a slower paced, in depth discussion of topics.

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"…a bunch of racist humor"

Huh, perhaps where you are but I've never heard any of note. AR is pretty clean in that respect, self-policing works very well.

Yes your experience is heavily location dependent.

OK, I'll have to accept that expansion. Was it mostly on VHF (would seem more likely)?

You hear it in the UK on 160m, there are a couple of nets that deal in that kind of "non politically correct" stuff, I don't tune in.

Hum, OK. I'm in VK, seems it's quieter here. Thought they'd use VHF to keep it local, but I suppose 160m is the next best thing (it's not the best look, you ought to keep that traffic local if possible).

PS: Sorry about that damn typo, I must kill autocorrect.

Yeah and the Italians always ignore any power limits so you hear them all over the world :)

Just maybe they've a penchant or flair for efficient antenna design. ;-)

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