Subj : Re: HAM
To   : Phigan
From : Thom LaCosta
Date : Wed Mar 08 2023 05:39:32

//Hello Phigan,//

 >> Just installed the HAM function.  Do

 P> Not to be pedantic here (just kidding,
 P> pretty sure we all love being a little
 P> pedantic once in a while), but "ham"
 P> isn't an acronym so shouldn't be
 P> capitalized as HAM. It's just ham. It
 P> was a derogatory term used by
 P> professional telegraph operators to
 P> describe amateur operators (IIRC).
                                     
OMG, sounds like one of the posts one sees and trys to avoid on QRZ.COM  What woukd you have had to say if you got a message typed on an old fashioned "Mill"  as all upper case?

Next we can debate the phrase "Freeze the balls off a Brass Monkey"

 

73,
Thom LaCosta
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