[TenTec] OT: Radios? Why are they Radios? (Was Radio debate)

ac5e at comcast.net ac5e at comcast.net
Tue Mar 30 12:00:28 EST 2004



Why are they radios and not "tele" something? Because "telegraphy" meaning far writing was already taken. Radio is a contracted form of the awkward telegraphy by artificial radiation - originally radio-telegraphy, then radio-telephony, and now just radio.  

73  Pete Allen  AC5E



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