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I can say without a doubt of all technically oriented communities the HAM radio community is by far the most rude, hostile, and least educated in their field of any group.
The amount of just pure idiocy and lack of understanding of even the basics is astonishing considering this is a licensed trade.
This is something I honestly cannot second.
Most people I have encountered in the ham radio hobby, so far are very polite and well educated.
There are these statistically normal exceptions you have in every hobby, yes. But this really isn't abnormally high. A clear minority. At least here in Europe.
And if I occasionally do encounter rude hams on the band's, it's most likely that they specifically have some very few origins, tbh...
@stefanfendt I have generally had an overwhelming amount of people agreeing with me.. I think you are one of like 2 out of hundreds that disagreed...
My guess, you arent american are you? I suspect the non-american ham scene might be far more tolerable.
@freemo
Your're right. I'm not American. I'm European (German European).
You could be right with the assumption, that this isn't such a big deal here. As said, I almost always only encounter polite and relaxed hams here.
I sometimes had the impression that some US ham OPs take the hobby by far more seriously than I personally would regard to be "healthy". Sometimes as serious as a second profession, sometimes even more than that.