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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 167423" data-attributes="member: 29323">Other hobbies are no different. I was introduced to amateur (ham) radio when I was at school back in about 1975 & have been playing with radios ever since. I am also a keen amateur magician & they are no different.On one magic forum if you don't worship at the feet of the right professionals who use their site & recommend their work, then expect to be banned.In amateur radio, contesters will whistle & talk over the top of you, to gain a frequency that you are using. A few years ago I was operating a station for a big Scout Jamboree & had been using a frequency all day, so it had been logged online several times & was thus busy. Then at 5pm when a contest started, I found myself battling a idiot whistling on the frequency I was using to make it unusable for me.   And at a club level it can be difficult to get support for parts of the hobby, the majority of the committee do not participate in. And if like me you have a pirate radio broadcasting background, certain elements are not at all happy.</blockquote>