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RE: [TenTec] OT: Radios? Why are they Radios? (Was Radio debate)

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Subject: RE: [TenTec] OT: Radios? Why are they Radios? (Was Radio debate)
From: "James Duffer" <dufferjames@hotmail.com>
Reply-to: tentec@contesting.com
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 06:39:52 -0600
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Sorry Rob, Truckers have the rigs. Hams have receivers, transceivers, transmitters etc.

Times change. However, if you listen to the cw contacts you will hear the term rig mentioned still today, and on some QSL cards it is still a term that is frequently used.....do you qsl? If you do are you going to use the term "rig"? QSL used to be pretty much of the norm....wallpaper, maybe the price of postage and cards or whatever makes that less likely to happen. 73, Jim, wd4air


From: "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: tentec@contesting.com
To: tentec@contesting.com
CC: k5uj@hotmail.com
Subject: [TenTec] OT:  Radios?  Why are they Radios?  (Was Radio debate)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:09:48 +0000

I was QRT for around 18 years and became active again around 4 years ago. When I was active before, transmitters-receivers/transceivers were called rigs. When I came back they all had become "radios." I kind of went with it with some perplexity but I've decided to ask what happened because a guy wrote an article in CQ this month, telling his tale of being QRT for around 45 years and coming back, and he asked the same thing in his article. What's this "Radio" jazz all about? Where did that come from? A radio is this consumer electronics appliance folks use to swl, hear weather alerts, broadcast transmissions, police, fire etc. A T4 isn't a radio. Neither is a KWM2, or an Orion or anything else in a shack that delivers and receives RF. They're rigs. We're hams. We have rigs. We don't need no stinkin' radios. Next, the shack will be called the radio room.

Rob Atkinson
K5UJ

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