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HAM here, can confirm. If a community exists, there will be pointless gatekeeping of that community, lol.

baz00 3y ago
And within those communities there will be assholes who are better than you too who are gatekeeping the sublevels. I have long since traded my license for a better life of being a decadent man of international mystery, but I do remember as a very casual CW operator getting mauled by people semi-regularly for violations of people's waterfall displays with my drifty ass analogue transceiver and newbie hand.
- networkchad 3y ago
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kmbfjr 3y ago
Ham, not HAM. Or just call it amateur radio because HAM is meaningless.
- jacquesm 3y ago
  It seems to me you got it just fine.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  Where did the "HAM" nomenclature come from, then? I have wondered what the letters stand for. I do share your disdain for stupid and/or incorrect nomenclature. Like "Wi-Fi." WTF, there's no use of "fidelity" that this is short for.
  - jlokier 3y ago
    Wi-Fi™ was never intended to describe anything. It is a commercial trademark brand, chosen to sound good and be easy to recognise. There's a Wi-Fi™ logo too. In a similar way, ThunderBolt™ links don't use thunder, or bolts.
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      Sure, that was the same excuse used for the flip-flopping on the meaning of "DVD." "ThunderBolt" is an invalid comparison because it's not a rip-off of a known earlier and widely-used term, the way "Wi-Fi" is.
  - ansonhoyt 3y ago
    The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, 3rd edition, section 1.1 explains the term: > How did “amateur” become “ham”? The real answer is unknown! Even before radio, telegraphers referred to a poor operator as a ham. Perhaps this was derived from a poor operator being “ham-fisted” on the telegraph key — an operator’s “fist” referred to his or her distinctive style over the wires. With all radio stations sharing the same radio spectrum in the early days, commercial and military operators would sometimes refer to amateurs as hams when there was interference. Regardless, amateurs adopted the term as a badge of honor and proudly refer to each other as “hams” today. While you'd buy the latest 5th edition from the ARRL [1] to prepare for the exam, the older 3rd edition is freely available online [2]. [1] https://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-license-manual https://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-license-manual [2] https://macaloney.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-prepare-for-ham-radio-technician.html https://macaloney.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-prepare-for-ha...
- EGG_CREAM 3y ago
  Seems like you understood the meaning, so it's not meaningless lol

And within those communities there will be assholes who are better than you too who are gatekeeping the sublevels. I have long since traded my license for a better life of being a decadent man of international mystery, but I do remember as a very casual CW operator getting mauled by people semi-regularly for violations of people's waterfall displays with my drifty ass analogue transceiver and newbie hand.

networkchad 3y ago
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kmbfjr 3y ago

Ham, not HAM. Or just call it amateur radio because HAM is meaningless.

jacquesm 3y ago
It seems to me you got it just fine.
ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
Where did the "HAM" nomenclature come from, then? I have wondered what the letters stand for. I do share your disdain for stupid and/or incorrect nomenclature. Like "Wi-Fi." WTF, there's no use of "fidelity" that this is short for.
- jlokier 3y ago
  Wi-Fi™ was never intended to describe anything. It is a commercial trademark brand, chosen to sound good and be easy to recognise. There's a Wi-Fi™ logo too. In a similar way, ThunderBolt™ links don't use thunder, or bolts.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Sure, that was the same excuse used for the flip-flopping on the meaning of "DVD." "ThunderBolt" is an invalid comparison because it's not a rip-off of a known earlier and widely-used term, the way "Wi-Fi" is.
- ansonhoyt 3y ago
  The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, 3rd edition, section 1.1 explains the term: > How did “amateur” become “ham”? The real answer is unknown! Even before radio, telegraphers referred to a poor operator as a ham. Perhaps this was derived from a poor operator being “ham-fisted” on the telegraph key — an operator’s “fist” referred to his or her distinctive style over the wires. With all radio stations sharing the same radio spectrum in the early days, commercial and military operators would sometimes refer to amateurs as hams when there was interference. Regardless, amateurs adopted the term as a badge of honor and proudly refer to each other as “hams” today. While you'd buy the latest 5th edition from the ARRL [1] to prepare for the exam, the older 3rd edition is freely available online [2]. [1] https://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-license-manual https://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-license-manual [2] https://macaloney.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-prepare-for-ham-radio-technician.html https://macaloney.blogspot.com/2019/06/how-to-prepare-for-ha...
EGG_CREAM 3y ago
Seems like you understood the meaning, so it's not meaningless lol