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not really. The prohibition on encryption/obfuscation is how you keep abusers off the frequencies.

If you run into someone who is regularly

- using encryption, obfuscation - failing to identify with a callsign - using lots of bandwidth - doing some sort of commercial activity.

then you get a group together, track them down, and report them to the FCC.

The thing people forget is that the primary goal of the ham system is to promote radio experience and experimentation. That is why there is such a wide variety of frequencies available.



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