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Yo, N3MWM, the speed limit on I-90 in Minnesota is 70 MPH. You obviously don’t care about others on the road.

Being a member of various Pi-Star support mediums, I see all kinds of questions. Some good, some really bad and rudimentary.

But some questions are off the charts stupid.

As a follow-up to my Hams Using Slashed-Ohs Suck article, I recently ran into a potentially bad use-case, further reinforcing my point, that hams who improperly use them in their call signs as zeros, suck ass.

Myself as a ham, I’m connected to myriad support mediums, forums, groups, mailing lists, etc. It amazes me how much hams, give other hams bad advice, when problem-solving.

I’m going to put this right out there for you hams giving terrible advice: you suck, and you are not helping.

Come on, “hams”…please use meaningful talker aliases on DMR.

You’re a DMR user and “what is a Talker Alias”, you ask? Figures… 😡

With the advent of DMR/YSF/D-Star/etc. networks being online and the resulting wonderful hotspots, there has been an onslaught of turnkey, ready-to-use hotspots hitting the market over the past few years. One of the new hot new players in hotspots, is the BridgeCom SkyBridge. The price? Just shy of $300.

That is quite a bit of coin, yes. And the hams out there complaining about the price is absolutely overwhelming.

For the love of fuck, stop referring to standards as trade names.

(Read part 2 of this article…)

Go ahead…try to type Ø on your computer instantly. I’ll wait. Yeah…no. Not happening.

I see many hams using this special character in their call signs when denoting a zero numeral, Guess what? it’s not a numeral, geniuses… It’s actually a letter (Unicode U+00D8).