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Anyone can listen on a ham radio, you need a license to broadcast. FRS, CB and MURS are the unlicensed options in the US to my knowledge.

broadcasting is not permitted on ham bands in the us. i suspect you might have meant that you need a license to transmit

Can always spot a non-ham by use of the word "broadcast". It's a dead giveaway.

Or some people just don't care about minor language semantics, radios are never truthfully point to point. Anyone in range can hear them.

i'm a non-ham actually, but i'm also a shibboleth specialist

Lock me up and take away my license...

That's true, but anyone can get a license.