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Just like so many amateur radio operators are afraid to speak on air
Most of ham is, sadly, either pre-arranged groups or contest stuff. I very rarely get people just having a chat.
The edgelord gatekeepers that will try and boot you off a repeater during snowstorm travel just so they can have their precious weekly net where nothing useful happens.
Many hams seem to be governance larpers instead of members of a community.
Huge turn-off.
Some repeaters are much worse than others. My local one in Europe is fine, mostly old folks with nothing to do at home, or old folks driving around in a car with a radio set to the repeater out of habit.
It's a little scary on the repeater, you never know who's listening...
If there were more homers willing to coach new hams instead of telling them to get off the frequency, we would be less afraid of messing up and more willing to talk.