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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