> Sounds like CB jargon to me. > In my 45 years I never heard hams use terms like that. > I guess I have a three-by-two hundred sitting in my > basement. FYI Hams have been calling 3CX3000's 3 by 3's since the 60's or 70's. 4 by 5's and 4 by 1's (for 4-1000A's) are both common terms also. 73 Tom