I'm fairly certain that if you wanted long distance encrypted communications, you could just grab a LoRa module today and send out some AES-encrypted stuff and

I'm fairly certain that if you wanted long distance encrypted communications, you could just grab a LoRa module today and send out some AES-encrypted stuff and no one will bother you. Isn't the point of the Ham community supposed to be about low-tech solutions? I wouldn't quite say they are "preppers", but maybe "prepper-adjacent" ? Leaving some radio frequencies for unencrypted communications or Morse code or whatever hams are doing was the point of the ham frequencies, right? For encryption, we've got like everything else (cell phones, WiFi, etc. etc.)