If you search the Web for the origin of the term “HAM” for radio amateurs, you will find two or three accounts that are evidently most believed. However, this version seems to be the most credible. It was provided to me by a very active and accomplished HAM, Mr. Cornell D., who is not given to propagating bad information. I tried unsuccessfully to locate an original version of the “Florida Skip Magazine” from 1959. If anyone has a copy that can provide a scan of the article, it would be a great......

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