On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:55:38 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The term may have been 'officialized' by the article, but I
>remember K6MJX offering to be my 'Elmer' when I was 14 years old
>in 1958. I asked him then where the term came from and he said he
>didn't know - it was like Ham which had fu
The term may have been 'officialized' by the article, but I remember K6MJX
offering to be my 'Elmer' when I was 14 years old in 1958. I asked him then
where the term came from and he said he didn't know - it was like Ham which
had
fuzzy origins. The term was in usage here and there well bef
Sandy,
I'm reasonably certain the use of "Elmer" started due to
the 1971 QST article.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] "Elmer" background info
In a message dated 6/28/07 11:27:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's a very recent term
In a message dated 6/28/07 11:27:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> It's a very recent term as Ham-speak goes, originating in QST in 1971
> according to this source:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/mentor/
>
I remember when that article came out.I wasn't a
Yep. It's a very recent term as Ham-speak goes, originating in QST in 1971
according to this source:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/club/mentor/
Ron AC7AC
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Some years ago a grateful ham wrote a "warm fuzzy" magazine article
in one of the US Amateur radio magazines
Ken Kopp wrote:
> Some years ago a grateful ham wrote a "warm fuzzy" magazine article in
> one of the US Amateur radio magazines (QST?) thanking the man who had
> been his mentor into the hobby. The man's name was Elmer.
>
> 73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I guess it's a good thing hi
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