<![CDATA[Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).]]>Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%).

Utah is the nerdiest (about 0.6%)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/4405fc97-877c-4558-bdd1-587d8b0e9509/fun-fact-the-district-of-columbia-is-the-least-nerdy-place-in-the-us-as-measured-by-the-per-capita-population-of-licensed-ham-radio-operators-about-0.07-.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 06:56:12 GMTWed, 13 May 2026 02:55:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 20:10:08 GMT]]>@mattblaze going for mine next month🌪️

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/meadxmoon/statuses/116569080374553911https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/meadxmoon/statuses/116569080374553911Wed, 13 May 2026 20:10:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 19:25:19 GMT]]>@mattblaze https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qccODKH0nn6ZZPNMpsxESOcUJFE33tvEn2QUowSYTNw/edit?usp=drivesdk for per capita nerdiness.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/evanwolf/statuses/116568904136795032https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/evanwolf/statuses/116568904136795032Wed, 13 May 2026 19:25:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:54:52 GMT]]>@mattblaze haha

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://az.social/users/godber/statuses/116568784374432761https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://az.social/users/godber/statuses/116568784374432761Wed, 13 May 2026 18:54:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:51:54 GMT]]>@godber There's nothing normal about either amateur radio or DC.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116568772712582966https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116568772712582966Wed, 13 May 2026 18:51:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:48:44 GMT]]>@mattblaze interesting, normalizing or somehow accounting for age might be informative

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://az.social/users/godber/statuses/116568760314662856https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://az.social/users/godber/statuses/116568760314662856Wed, 13 May 2026 18:48:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:40 GMT]]>Source: I divided the ARRL state-by-state license statistics (https://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts) by state populations (from Wikipedia). Then after it became tedious to do it for every state, I noticed someone else had done the math for this a few years ago (https://michiganonedmrtech.net/list-of-us-states-by-ham-radio-licenses-per-capita/)

Nerds are everywhere, but not uniformly distributed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116568720723447637https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116568720723447637Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:38 GMT]]>@mattblaze I got my first ham ticket in DC! also my first exposure to an American hackerspace at HacDC.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ice-lolly.social/users/rechner/statuses/116568720573271819https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ice-lolly.social/users/rechner/statuses/116568720573271819Wed, 13 May 2026 18:38:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:53:48 GMT]]>@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze

Of course—nobody puts up a full-wave 80 meter antenna! But even a quarter wave inverted vee is pretty big—you need some very patient neighbors if you're going to do that in DC.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116568308367064868https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116568308367064868Wed, 13 May 2026 16:53:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 16:31:30 GMT]]>@mattblaze @Eka_FOOF_A @kajord

A ⇒ B ≢ B ⇒ A...

🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116568220680683029https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116568220680683029Wed, 13 May 2026 16:31:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 14:03:45 GMT]]>@abhayakara @kajord @mattblaze
Half and quarter wave antennas work.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spacey.space/users/Eka_FOOF_A/statuses/116567639702145226https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spacey.space/users/Eka_FOOF_A/statuses/116567639702145226Wed, 13 May 2026 14:03:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 13:49:03 GMT]]>@abhayakara @Eka_FOOF_A @kajord Hams are nerds. Just own it already.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116567581916460215https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116567581916460215Wed, 13 May 2026 13:49:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 13:31:50 GMT]]>@Eka_FOOF_A @kajord @mattblaze

How are you supposed to put up an 80-meter dipole in DC? You'd have to be richer than God to have that much available space.

Also, though, you may have proven that ham does not correlate well with nerd.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116567514167591695https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/abhayakara/statuses/116567514167591695Wed, 13 May 2026 13:31:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 10:30:00 GMT]]>@mattblaze interesting. Was the per capita number based on each state?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/dcpatton/statuses/116566799194069484https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/dcpatton/statuses/116566799194069484Wed, 13 May 2026 10:30:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 05:00:41 GMT]]>@kajord @mattblaze

I was thinking that too.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spacey.space/users/Eka_FOOF_A/statuses/116565504284468066https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://spacey.space/users/Eka_FOOF_A/statuses/116565504284468066Wed, 13 May 2026 05:00:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 03:37:34 GMT]]>@mattblaze Utah is the nerdiest, in a prepper sort of way. Probably also leads the nation in sales of large containers of freeze-dried foods.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/kajord/statuses/116565177449508526https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/kajord/statuses/116565177449508526Wed, 13 May 2026 03:37:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 03:12:18 GMT]]>@mattblaze 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wonder how our approval ratings compare -- I bet we win on criminal convictions though

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soylent.green/users/paul/statuses/116565078080788027https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soylent.green/users/paul/statuses/116565078080788027Wed, 13 May 2026 03:12:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 03:09:28 GMT]]>@paul It's almost exactly as likely to be a licensed ham in DC as it is to be a member of congress.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116565066971876444https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://federate.social/users/mattblaze/statuses/116565066971876444Wed, 13 May 2026 03:09:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Fun fact: the District of Columbia is the least nerdy place in the US, as measured by the per capita population of licensed ham radio operators (about 0.07%). on Wed, 13 May 2026 03:06:28 GMT]]>@mattblaze proudly one of the 0.07%

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soylent.green/users/paul/statuses/116565055144479808https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://soylent.green/users/paul/statuses/116565055144479808Wed, 13 May 2026 03:06:28 GMT