[ARC5] Trivial question. Meaning of "SCR"

Neil neilb at ihug.co.nz
Sat Mar 30 19:43:46 EDT 2013


> In American English "wireless" is "radio". British (and Commonwealth)
> English preserved "wireless" for "radio" :-)!
> The word "Radio" was already used in the US in WW1.
>
> 73, Meir WF2U

OK, thank you for the explanation. I guess I was lulled into thinking
"wireless" was more commonly used in the US than it actually was,
after much recent reading of the Titanic testimony.

73 de Neil ZL1ANM


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