In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:
"Lumushahs" wrote in message
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From: n2ey
Also, some of the people on the list may not be hams.
No, they're all hams.
Maybe, maybe not.
Don't assume that they
all are. Just because they have a call sign does not mean they are "hams",
either.
Yes, it does.
One can still like radio (amateur or professional), and not be a
"ham".
"Amateur radio operator" and "ham" mean the same thing.
Perhaps in a limited view. Or it may be an attempt to limit other people's
options. By declaring there is no other options, these other amateur radio
amateurs (must) subsrcibe to the ham culture.
From: Fred Garvin
Just because they have a call sign does not mean they are "hams",
either.
Ummm, yes it does.
One can still like radio (amateur or professional), and not be a "ham".
Sure.
So all people with a call sign must like to be called "ham", worship morse
code, love contests, hate CBers, and believe all things that are "ham"?
Some people do not identify with those things, and have their own interests.
There is no requirement, formal or informal or otherwise, to follow any
particular, so-called culture.
Peer pressure! Especially from the Exxtras (dos equis or otherwise)
The term "ham" is, and has been for
approximately 100 years, a term meaning amateur radio operator.
According to the ARRL the word "ham" was applied by PROFESSIONAL
morsemen on amateurs for their poor sending. It was a term of
DERISION (scorn, ridicule).
One hundred
years ago, there was no CB and there were no contests.
Radio, as a communications medium, is 108 years old.
There were contests of all sorts 108 years ago! Sunnuvagun!
First Modern Olympic Games were held in 1896...same year
as the first demonstrations of radio. No radio per se at the
first of the Modern Olympic Games. How about that?
Morse was a
necessity but hams were working diligently on better transmitters and
working towards developing voice transmissions.
First radio voice transmission was in 1906...done by a pro, not an
amateur. Reginald Fessenden.
The Pros developed the "better transmitters" and the better
tubes for those better transmitters. It's in all the text books.
When the term was coined,
none of the factors that you list were pertinent and some didn't even exist.
...and Mama Dee was THERE! :-)
"What day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that
alter and illuminate our times...and you were there...!"
- tag line for CBS radio/TV show "You Are There."