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

[James Duffer]

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 at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: tentec at contesting.com
>To: tentec at contesting.com
>CC: k5uj at 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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