 ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR In a decisive move Rick Roderick, K5UR President of the American Radio Relay League announced that the ARRL will form an elite paramilitary squad for the eradication of severe cases of jamming and interference on Amateur Radio frequencies in the United States. This squad will be comprised of former military personnel experienced in communication and radio direction finding tactics. This armed militia will travel the U.S. following severe reports of belligerent behavior and will have the eventual capability of being deployed anywhere in the nation within 8 hours. Each Amateur Radio call area will have it's own recallable team ready to roll on page out notice. The full implementation deadline is January 6th, 2023. "Enough is enough" said Roderick, "The number one complaint of our membership is about goofs on repeaters and pirates on 20M & 80M." With this move Roderick hopes that decades of Ham Operator angst over "doing nothing" will be solved in a mater of weeks as the militia rolls in and out of towns and cities all over America destroying radios and antennas of offenders. Although most of the tactics will remain a secret it is widely thought that this hit and run squad will employ tactics made famous in Iraq by Blackwater employees and in the 1970's movie Citizens Band.
The DIPOLE - the Worlds finest Amateur Radio News Source, like a Dipole there are two sides to every story, we ignore those sides, digging deeper for unwanted lobes and parasitic reactions  From recently leaked documents it appears that Amateur Radio equipment manufacturers are about to part with tradition and change S-meters to go to S-10 instead of S-9. This has caused a huge debate on social media. While some hams see the higher signal reports as a boost to otherwise poor conditions, many are outraged that only people with money for new radios get to hear these stronger signals.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity, Hitoshi Yakamoto from Yaesu said that they wanted to do something truly innovative for ham radio. After much discussion, the design team agreed an extra S-unit was perfect, although one of the new engineers said he couldn’t recall studying S-units in school at all. The debates are intense. Contesters are wondering if everyone is now “5-10” or just those with the new radios. British and US hams are united in their opposition, complaining it’s yet another example of metric being used to confuse everyone.
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