No More Dots and Dashes

No More Dots and Dashes | Battle Born Tech · August 25, 2026 This week on Battle Born Tech, A ham radio license without the Morse code, a browser that eats YouTube ads, and the quiet question of who's mapping your Wi-Fi. Three callers, three itches worth scratching. Tom has spent years wrestling YouTube's ads into submission, one blocked button at a time. We hand him a cleaner tool and one honest catch he won't love hearing. Then Kirk drops by, not with a problem, but with an invitation. Ever thought about getting on the air as a ham radio operator and talked yourself out of it? There's one thing you used to need that's gone now, and it changes the whole picture. What it costs and how to start might surprise you. And Ron wants to know who's been quietly pinning his home router to a map, and whether he can make them stop. The answer is yes. Sort of. On a voluntary, please-and-thank-you basis. We walk the line between a real privacy fix and a principled stand. Along the way: a customer-service bot that refuses to break character, a fake online store where you can blow ten grand and buy nothing, a food-delivery site where the food never comes (on purpose), and the old geeky hobby that quietly turned into the reason your phone knows where you are indoors. Battle Born Tech airs Tuesdays at 8 PM Pacific on FM 95.1 · Stream live at KNVC.org · battleborn.tech · bbtl.ink/stats · Call the studio Saturdays 9–11 AM, Sundays 7 9 PM Pacific: 775-241-3571