[Boatanchors] Elmer

[Richard Knoppow]

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From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Elmer


> OK, so much for "Elmer;"
> let's see how much really old-timey radio you know:
>
> If I say to you:  "Hoops!"  (clue:  a nick-name for a 
> person),
>
> Of whom and when am I speaking?
>
> Gold star sticker and a cookie to the winner.....
>
> And if you can quote a verse or two of the poem from which 
> this name came,
> you will win the title:
> "Utterly Awesome Old Radio Guy.
>
     Probably the wrong one but Hoops makes me think of 
admiral Hooper, who was probably the originator of the idea 
of RCA.  At least Linwood Howeth suggests that.
     At a stretch it could be Herbert Hoover Jr who was 
president of the ARRL for a time and is given credit for at 
least part of the design of the HRO.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com