[CQ-Contest] 807s

[Tom Haavisto]

Part of it seems to have been missed over the years.  My understanding was that the 807 was a very popular tube with hams, and as the reference pointed out, tubes are bottles...

I suspect the 807 must have had a similar shape to a beer bottle for the reference to be made.  Anyone remember the "stubby"?

Tom


----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Younker NE6I <ne6i at cox.net>
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 807s

> This subject came up on this very list in 1999.
> See:
> http://lists.contesting.com/_amps/1999-11/msg00013.html
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barry Merrill" <barry at mxg.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 5:40 AM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] 807s
> 
> 
> > Not off topic, completely, because I first heard the reference 
> at the 
> > first Field Day I attended in 1955,
> > but does anyone in this esteemed audience know the
> > reason why, and when, a "cold 807" first became a beer reference?
> >
> > Barry, W5GN
> >
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