On Apr 2, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Colin McDonald wrote:

> I've never run across the term lid before except for the past few  
> days on
> this list...what does it stand for in the amateur radio context?
>>
Wow...has "lid" really fallen into that much disuse?

Lid is a term that means "Poor operator" (poor as in not good, not  
poor as in broke). If you tune your 1,500-watt linear on top of the  
hurricane watch net, someone might say you're a lid. (I would.) I  
think the term originates with land-line telegraphers: newer  
telegraphers were, if I remember what someone told me correctly,  
called lids because they might use a coffee can lid to make their  
telegraph sounders more distinct, or something like that.


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