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I havn't checked to see if this has been answered already m, but in the old old days of the wireline telegraph new operators would put a tin can lid over the sounder to make it have more of a tone than the usual click it made to make it easier to copy the old american morse code
On Jan 5, 2012, at 8:04 AM, David thurmond wrote:
> OK, here's a trivia question for all you Elmers out there. What is a
> LID and where does this term come from? I have been led to understand
> that this is someone who, shall we say, does not embrace best
> operating practices, but I'm curious about the term.
>
> 73,
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> David Thurmond, KK4ADV
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