Fred Furlly wrote:
Hey! Way cool, CL! I Love trivia History.

One more piece. Back around 1953, my Elmer, (Shorty,
SK, W5OLV - old lousy virgin), told me that the "ham"
in ham radio originated with the way English cockney
amateur radio operators pronounced "'amateur" as in
"ham-ateur".

One note on antennas: W5OLV talked to those cockneys
on 10m with an RG-11 fed 75m dipole. When I later
learned that an 80m dipole used on 10m would be 4
wavelengths long, I thought Shorty was pretty
ignorant. It's true that 1/2WL on 80m would be 4
wavelengths on 10m but I much later realized that
28MHz/4MHz = 7 and 7/2 = 3.5 wavelengths. As I
remember, Shorty's dipole was ~117 feet long.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com