[Qcwa] interesting facts
Harvey&Bessie
w4tg at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 23 19:14:45 EDT 2004
As for Amateur = Ham a number of us have explained how it came about but nobody listens.
They say, in effect, that's an interesting "theory." So here it goes again:
For many many years before ham radio or any other kind of radio, amateur actors (on the
stage) were called "hams." So it became easy for the nomenclature to be transferred to
radio amateurs when that hobby came into being. That's not a theory, fellas, that's a fact.
Harvey/W4TG
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