[Elecraft] "Elmer" background info

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Yep. It's a very recent term as Ham-speak goes, originating in QST in 1971
according to this source: 

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/mentor/


Ron AC7AC 

-----Original Message-----
Some years ago a grateful ham wrote a "warm fuzzy" magazine article 
in one of the US Amateur radio magazines (QST?) thanking the man 
who had been his mentor into the hobby.  The man's name was Elmer.

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
k0pp at arrl.net