On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:21:51 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Call me War Lord.

I'd rather not if it's all the same. :-)

If not the code, maybe they should beef up tech requirements a bit, or
require some proof of home built equipment as a demonstration of
commitment to the hobby.

On the other hand the whole raison de etre is at risk since global
communication of all kinds is so easily accomplished by everyone. As
a kid, that was part of the mystique. Emergency communications still
has some validity but a lot less so in the cell phone and EMAIL era.