keenmaster486 wrote:AlaricD wrote:It's called "amateur radio".
Amateur radio is not broadcasting. Its purpose is for people to experiment and have fun talking to other hams on the dial. Broadcasting is a whole different story.
And here I am, wrong on the Internet for the first time ever! No, wait, I've been wrong before...
I was reading "broadcast" as transmit, and overlooked the obvious thing that a broadcast is a one-way radio transmission wherein the receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof (or "as a transmission intended for reception by the general public, either direct or delayed.", versus amateur radio operators typically performing two-way, point-to-point transmission and receiving, message relaying, and the like.
Yes, the nature of radio wave propagation makes 'most any transmission a "broadcast" in a technical sense, but not in the legal sense.
So, I'm wrong and you're right.