Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 5 days agoYou just can’t legally transmit without a license. You can own a ham radio and listen all you want.
Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 5 days agoYou just can’t legally transmit without a license. You can own a ham radio and listen all you want.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Perhaps where you live.
Internet 101: Laws aren’t the same everywhere.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Out of curiosity: where do you live where listening on ham requires a license?
In the US and other countries I am aware of, listening is allowed without a license (how would one even enforce such a thing?). In fact, you can even transmit on a ham radio in the US without a license provided there is an immediate risk to life or property.
axh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What if the “laws aren’t the same” remark was about “you can’t transmit without a permit”? Not about the “you need license to listen”?
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Could be. I expect the commenter would clarify.
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Early evening in the western hemisphere, OP posted a large sum of perfectly native fluency English, so yeah, I’ll assume US or Canada. Can’t have a conversation without making reasonable assumptions. But please, feel free to add to the conversation, where do some of these exceptions exist? Don’t just “um, actually” the conversation, add to it!
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 5 days ago
yes they are