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Re: why are you caled hams?
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Buddy Brannan <[log in to unmask]>
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Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:51:07 -0500
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No one knows for sure. Here are some theories:

1) Ham, short for ham-fisted (i.e. can't send code for !@#$%^!!!)

2) Ham, short for Amateur

3) HAM was the callsign used in around 1908 before official ones were issued, for a station that was owned by three people whose last initials spelled out HAM (thus, the station's call...sorry, I don't recall the whole story)

Betcha a cold cheeseburger there are more, but none, so far as I know, is definitive.
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