I believe their are two types of HAM radio operators and users.
Type 1, the traditional ham radio operator. Interested in the technology of radio, the electronics how it works, how to make it better, building various components of a system, or even an entire system. They get on the radio and use a the radio like “chat rooms”, meet new people, DX’ing etc...
Type 2: interested in using the radio to communicate with family and friends and the groups we are in. Not to much different then how GMRS radios are used. We don’t care about the tech side of how radios work (for the most part), or building systems and parts of scratch or kits, , or talking just to be talking or DXing, etc. we use the radios no differently then how a business uses commercial business radios, we just aren’t a business and we aren’t conducting commercial business etc... we just need a form of wireless communication other then cell phones.
Agree? disagree?