complicated "hard no". I refuse to ask anyone for permission to speak, regardless of the technological means of encoding and transmitting that speech. It's po

complicated "hard no". I refuse to ask anyone for permission to speak, regardless of the technological means of encoding and transmitting that speech. It's polite not to paper neighborhoods with posters, not to smash spectrum with noise. The proposition that the risk of impolite behavior requires prior permission to participate contradicts the principles our government operates under. Amateur radio is great. Licensing sucks. History may someday record that the biggest effect of Helene was causing the schism in the amateur radio community between the fudds and the hackers to finally crack open public and hard. I expect that to be as epochal as the AT&T breakup was to computer networking.