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 fuzzy origins. The term >was in usage here and there well before the 70's
I first discovered ham radio in 1951 in my high school radio club (W2CLE, allegedly the first HS radio club licensed on the US) and the term was not in use there at the time. Anyhow, my "Elmer"s were named Gene and Jack ! We were all the same general age (14). -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 (Licensed as K2ASP in 1952) _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
