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despite what has been said about it by the maority in these newsgroups
recently,

there is historical precedent for ham radio whackerism since ham radio
whackerism goes back to at least 1920, a time when the original ham
radio operators were still alive.

http://www.rollanet.org/~n0klu/Ham_R...am%20Radio.pdf

so wackerism is very obviously a required part of ham radio since the
original hams were whackers.