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- From: jreece@sousa.intel.com (John Reece)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
- Subject: Re: Stupid questions
- Message-ID: <BzvwH5.JAp@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 20:48:40 GMT
- References: <8RL7VB1w165w@tsoft.net> <85828@ut-emx.uucp>
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- Organization: Intel - Information Technologies
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- In article <85828@ut-emx.uucp>, mouli@ut-emx.uucp (Chandramouli. V) writes:
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- > Amateur, or "ham," radio, a noncommercial system of
- > communication, is as old as the medium of RADIO itself. The
- > origin of the term ham radio is unknown.
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- I thought it was generally accepted that "ham" came from "ham-fisted",
- which was pre-wireless Morse telegraphy slang for an inexpert operator.
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- John Reece "This lifeboat is full"
- Not an Intel spokesman
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