DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
The only FCC restrictions on what you cannot say on ham are profanity, conduct full time business or use coded-for-obscurity messages. The rest is just convention within the hobby, like the way those early guys did things (73's, Old Man, Q-codes, etc.) or informal or courteous operating habits (like saying the call signs of others in a net).Well giving an ID every once in a while doesn't mean you can't still use first names and CB handles. Nothing wrong with shouting "dude don't back up anymore, you're about to go in a hole!" on the ham, you can make good with the FCC later, as you know. But for those other times, that's why we do the vanity calls, eh.