> But damn, you want to piss off hams? Mention bitrate maximums or encryption. You'll never hear the end from the old gatekeeping idiots.

So much gatekeeping.

Incidentally, I have it Word From On High within Ofcom here in the UK that you literally cannot pay them to take an interest in what happens on the amateur bands.

There's "breaking the law" and there's "being a bit rude", the latter of which might be things like "hey let's do fastscan TV on 70cm and use about half the allocation!" You do have to watch with 70cm in the UK though because amateur radio is a secondary user, with primary users being the armed forces. But it's 10MHz wide and there's space for everyone to play.

Putting the 70cm packet BBS channel 5kHz above where all the car alarm keyfobs work was a bit silly though.

As regards microwave stuff, I've got some scrap 26GHz stuff at work that can apparently be tuned to 24GHz by swapping the cavity tuning screw for one of the slightly longer ODU outer cover screws, and tweaking a setting in the EEPROM in Factory Never Touch This Shit mode. Want to bet they had radio amateurs working for them?