On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:51:31PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > Outdated...? The term "Ham Radio" seems a _lot_ more common than > "Amateur Radio" -- for instance, Ham Radio seems to be heard quite often > on the news (usually in connection with disasters), whereas, to be > honest I can't say I've _ever_ heard the "Amateur Radio" used publicly. > > -Miles > Maybe in the US. Ham Radio Today magazine - now defunct - was the only time I ever saw Ham Radio mentioned anywhere in UK. If I'm trying to explain in fractured French/Spanish/German to officials what my radio kit is in my car - I am a radio amateur :) Tony Hancock (British comedian) made a radio sketch called "The Radio Ham" in the late 1950's which most of us are trying to live down :)
If I'm trying to explain to friends/neighbours - "It's amateur radio - I'm a radio ham and I have a licence to transmit and talk to people round the world." [Unless you're installing business mobile radio / telephone masts, there's very little "professional radio" to get into any more :( ] Radio to most people means "how do I get my Hauppage WinRadio card recognised by Debian" - gradio and so on. [Probably lives under multimedia in Debian menus]. Amateur radio - under Internet or its own section - means psk31 "stuff", slow scan "stuff" and so on. Just my 0.02 IRC :) Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
