[AMPS] Whither the 807?

[George T. Daughters]

wo0pw 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. 

You may have independently come up with it, but you weren't the 
first.  My old friend and Elmer, Jim, w9jbz, used the term frequently 
in 1955.  I don't know where he got it.  Why didn't the term "1625" 
become popular for a higher potential (more alcohol) libation become 
popular?

73,

George T. Daughters, K6GT

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