keks
quads confirm
ham technician license here, anyone can hear (and record) anyone on the same frequency, and most of us spin through the freqs just to see if there's anything interdasting going on. damn straight i'd record that shit
i speak a little russian - enough to know it's too interdasting not to record and translate later (best friend is russian)
The first two opportunities for Technician licensees to communicate over distance involve traditional HF equipment:
1) USA Technician class operators have privileges to operate CW mode (Morse code) on 80m, 40, 15m and 10m HF bands with a 200W power limit. This is how hams used to get started in amateur radio and while CW is still quite popular, it is intimidating to many new folks. So opportunity #1 may not be appealing to many Techs unless they want to learn Morse code (a fun skill, by the way).
2) USA Technicians also have SSB voice and digital (data) privileges on 10m, again with a 200W limit.
time for me to have moar fun, then