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- Info-Hams Digest Sat, 21 May 94 Volume 94 : Issue 553
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- Today's Topics:
- What does HAM mean ?
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- Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 18:01:28 GMT
- From: newsgate.melpar.esys.com!melpar!phb@uunet.uu.net
- Subject: What does HAM mean ?
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
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- srogers@uqac.uquebec.ca (Suzanne Rogers) writes:
-
- >What does HAM stand for?
-
- >Wild guesses:
- >=============
-
- >- Healthy AMateur enthousiasts ?
- >- Home (to the) AM band ?
- >- Hail (to the) Almighty Meter (bands) ?
- >- Hang (in) And Monitor ?
- >- How (to) Air (your) Mouthpiece ?
-
- >What ?
-
- No one knows, not even ARRL. It isn't an acronym as far as
- anyone can determine from history back to 1900. The only
- suggested origin I've ever heard is that some British radio
- enthusiasts started using the term "am" as short for "amateur"
- (i.e., "My neighbor is a radio am"). Since "Cockney" lingo
- drops the letter h from the front of words which begin with
- h (as in "I'm going 'ome now."), it has been suggested that a
- listener may have thought a Britisher saying "am" really meant
- "ham" but was dropping the h. Hence, the beginning of the
- term "radio ham." It may be a pretty weak argument, but traditions
- have begun in other pursuits from even more inauspicious origins.
-
- DX is an internationally-recognized abbreviation for "distance"
- and goes back to early radiotelegraph days of ships at sea. In
- fact, most abbreviations used today trace their origins back at
- least that far, and in some cases all the way back to the days of
- the landline telegraph. A few were chosen from non-English
- languages for their brevity; for example, the use of "DE", as in
- WA3XYZ DE K4MSG. "DE" is French for "from", but it is shorter
- in terms of characters and character elements than, say, "frm"
- or even "fm" (with the latterrunning the risk of being interpreted
- as "frequency modulation," although admittedly FM was developed
- long after "DE" came into use by radio telegraphers. In CW,
- "DE" vs "FRM" would be -../. versus ..-./.-./-- so it would
- save time. It seems a small thing, but when handling CW traffic
- through the static crashes on LF, using (ugh!) spark, every
- little bit would help.....
-
- Vy 73,
-
- Paul, K4MSG
-
- (|_|) * Paul H. Bock, Jr. K4MSG * Internet: pbock@melpar.esys.com
- | |) * Senior Systems Engineer * Telephone: (703) 560-5000 x2062
-
- "You can have my bug when you can pry my cold, dead fingers from
- around it....." - anonymous radiotelegraph operator
-
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- Date: 20 May 1994 13:23:15 GMT
- From: olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!elendir@ames.arpa
- To: info-hams@ucsd.edu
-
- References <sddb1c6e.053@LAKEHURST.NAVY.MIL>, <2rhhnc$pje@crcnis1.unl.edu>, <2ri4ov$r0g@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>univ-ly
- Subject : Re: Need help With German Repeaters
-
- Christof A Neumann (neumann@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote:
-
- : Charles is right. Almost every repeater in Germany has to be opened by
- : transmitting the 1750 Hz tone. If there are two or more repeaters in an
- : area, then the are using different frequencies.
-
- No wonder. It s the same here in France. 1750 Hz but for the transponders,
- which are normally "transparent" - always opened. In France, repeaters also
- have a timeout (90 s), meaning that if you don t let a "K" or "T" go by,
- you are fired after the delay. I dunno about German repeaters.
-
- Vince, F1RCS
-
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- ENST - Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France
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