[CW] QST: ARLX016 Former "How's DX?" Conductor Rod Newkirk, W9BRD (SK)

[Joe V31JP]

Likewise, Ken.  My mentors, I called my "Ham Radio Godfathers," not 
Elmers. But then, I'm from the class of 1957.

On 11/21/2012 1:07 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> In addition to that I was also glad to see in print finally a history 
> of the use of the term "Elmer." I never heard that terminology as a 
> Novice, and now I see why, it having been coined by Rod in the '70s. 
> There has developed around that term an incorrect myth that it has 
> been around since the beginning of amateur radio.
>
> DE N6KB 

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