Your phone, in combination with an appropriate license, would /be/ a ham radio in this context? You're railing against a small thing I'm not even engaged in.

Your phone, in combination with an appropriate license, would /be/ a ham radio in this context? You're railing against a small thing I'm not even engaged in. Your phone is not more powerful than something like the USRP, for example, and that's quite popular among hams these days.