Enjoy the wild west of no rules brought to you by Ebay, Amazon, and this very website.
For every legitimate thread here, I see 10 asking for help getting someone’s new electronic kazoo on the air. How do I bypass a password, how do I setup NAS, etc.
Want to play cops & robbers with the 1000s of retired 700/800mhz XTS’s? Go ahead. I’ve run into several groups of professional agitators that routinely use encrypted radios.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join them. Screw it. Don’t go stomping in the backyards of public safety, cellular, or broadcast allocations and the FCC isn’t going to do jack squat. Even if you do, no one is going to do anything if you keep it low power and limited use. Tell me I’m wrong.