Homebrew culture in amateur radio

Posted on 2026-03-19 In this post, I want to draw some parallels to the erosion of homebrew culture among radio amateurs with the way computer programming scene is getting changed with the advent of LLMs (often termed “AI” in corporate speak, I would rather use the original technical term, LLM, in this post). In the 70s and 80s and even the 90s, hams built their own equipments. The reasons are…