In article , Dave Heil
writes:

USING modern equipment is NOT involving development or
anything else. Try not to run off at the mouth/keyboard so
hastily. Try not to nit-pick like nits over minor phrases in
postings so that you have an "excuse" to cuss and snarl at
NCTAs. It makes you look like nursie's cousin. :-)

NOT USING modern equipment but attempting to spout off like you have
some knowledge of what is being discussed is making you look like
N0IMD's antenna advisor.

That would be Kellie...whose only "engineering expertise" seems
involved with antenna support structures. Kellie not know much
of the innards of frequency control subsystems in a modern radio
so he tries to misdirect onto his mechanical thing.

Do I have knowledge of modern frequency control subsystems of
radios? Yes, considerable. Such applies to all radios, not what
a designer-maker has labeled "amateur" as (as you imply) being
somehow different than other radios.

No amateur radio license is required to acquire knowledge of
radio-electronics technology. No amateur radio license will let
you legally radiate RF outside of amateur bands (beyond the
incidental/low-power government limits). In most U.S. radio
services no federal license is required to use those radios.