You definitely did not originate the usage of 807. It was in common use at
least shortly after I was first licensed in 1954.
73, Harry, W3IIT
At 07:40 AM 11/1/99 -0800, Radios R Toys wrote:
>
> I'm going to have to fess up to this. I believe that
>myself and another teen age ham began using the terms 807
>and 6146 back around 1959 as a form of code to discuss on
>the air what we had been doing without our elder bretheren
>on 80 meters knowing. To my knowledge, we independently
>created the terms, but my memory could be faulty due to the
>many 807's and 6146's since that time.
> W0OPW
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