Subj : Special Ham Radio Event
To   : Ralph Smole
From : Finnigann
Date : Sun Jul 10 2005 06:31 am

-=> Ralph Smole wrote to Angus Mcleod <=-

 RS>   Re: Special Ham Radio Event
 RS>   By: Angus Mcleod to Fornow on Sat Jul 09 2005 04:15 pm

 >   Re: Special Ham Radio Event
 >   By: Fornow to Frank on Sat Jul 09 2005 12:01:00
 >
 >  >   Re: Special Ham Radio Event
 >  >   By: Frank to Angus Mcleod on [36
 >  >
 >  > Why is it called "ham"?
 >
 > Nobody knows for sure.  There is a suggestion that it started when a
 > well-known station operating around 1908 by Albert Hyman, Bob Almy and
 > Peggie Murray used their names and then their initials (HAM) as a station
 > identifier.  That did occur, but there is some evidence to suggest that
 > the term was in use prior to then.
 >
 >
 >
 RS> I always thought it had something to do with Amateur radio in
 RS> some weird way? Dunno..

If this is humor on your part... (and it might well be, I have so few
examples), 
if not:

http://www.w7eca.org/whyham.htm

.... They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.
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