[CW] Definitions??? key, keyer etc.

[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/24/05 6:02:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ken.d.brown at verizon.net writes:


> I remember when I was a Novice, the other novices had transmitters and 
> receivers, or in a few cases transceivers. Anybody, including non hams 
> might have a radio. Even CBers had transceivers. Technicians and other 
> hams who operated primarily two meter FM were the only hams who referred 
> to their (not there, not they're) transceivers as radios. HF operators 
> used their transceiver to get on the radio, and VHF operators used their 
> radio get on the machine. I guess they are all wireless sets regardless 
> of how much wire is inside of them or how much wire they are hooked up 
> to for power and antenna purposes, but then so is a cell phone.
> 

It's very simple, really.

A radio is something you listen to music, news or the ball game on.

A rig is an amateur radio station exclusive of the antenna. Anything from an 
HT or QRP transceiver built in an Altoids tin to a legal-limit setup requiring 
several racks is simply "the rig". 



73 de Jim, N2EY