Agreed. Me too, by the way. My Elmer was W2FVB, Walter Muller. In my
33 year high school teaching carrier, not one student ever made fun of
the term ham. I taught a ham radio class for science credit (for
graduation) that met daily, but you had to have acquired a callsign to
get the credit. No kid ever made fun of me being their Elmer, however,
many remember their Elmer fondly like I remember mine As a 14 year old
know it all teenager, I had no problem telling my peers that I was a
"ham". No one ever made fun of me. Quite the contrary. We are what we
think, and, what we think, we project.
Jozef WB2MIC
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I certainly agree with Jozef. There is something called tradition. We are
"hams," and should be proud of that title. It took much effort in days
past, unlike today. When I recieved my Extra class license it meant
something other than the fact of successfully memorizing some answers. We
now have Extra class "operators." The FCC changed "ham radio" in order to
get more numbers. Never mind quality, let's have numbers. Never mind the
traditions. By the way I do remember my Elmer from 1956. Mike K4ELV
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