[Elecraft] Re: Hate the word "ham"

[Jozef Hand-Boniakowski]

Agreed.  Me too, by the way. My Elmer was W2FVB, Walter Muller.  In my 
33 year high school  teaching carrier, not one student ever made fun of 
the term ham.  I taught a ham radio class for science credit (for 
graduation) that met daily, but you had to have acquired a callsign to 
get the credit. No kid ever made fun of me being their Elmer, however, 
many remember their Elmer fondly like I remember mine  As a 14 year old 
know it all teenager, I had no problem telling my peers that I was a 
"ham".  No one ever made fun of me.  Quite the contrary.  We are what we 
think, and, what we think, we project. 

Jozef WB2MIC

K4elv at bellsouth,net wrote:
> I certainly agree with Jozef.  There is something called tradition.  We are 
> "hams," and should be proud of that title.  It took much effort in days 
> past, unlike today.  When I recieved my Extra class license it meant 
> something other than the fact of successfully memorizing some answers.  We 
> now have Extra class "operators."  The FCC changed "ham radio" in order to 
> get more numbers.  Never mind quality, let's have numbers.  Never mind the 
> traditions.  By the way I do remember my Elmer from 1956. Mike K4ELV
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