"Ham" isn't an acronym and shouldn't be written in all caps.

Using ham radio as an internet replacement (even for basic communication) isn't exactly trivial though. I have all the necessary bits lying around, and years of experience with the topic, and it would still take me quite a bit of fiddling to get a functional AX.25 link up and running (and that's just my end of it).

I was going to fire back and nitpick your use of lower-case Internet, but I see the tide has changed and I'm now on the losing side of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet

I wouldn’t really consider HAM/ham to be a nitpick though… If I capitalized a random WORD in a sentence, wouldn’t that look odd?

Ham radio, for which you need a license issued by the government, the very same government which took down the internet.

> Ham radio, for which you need a license issued by the government, the very same government which took down the internet.

But as the government is now the enemy, why would somebody refrain from operating without a license? And managing from being found, of course. OTOH, hams from other countries may refuse to communicate with unlicensed users, splitting the network...