Fun fact! I’m studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators’ sloppy work ‘ham-fisted’. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born
As usual, ham radio operators are saving the world.
They prefer the term Hams and love to remind people (in morris code of course) that not all heroes wear capes.
Hams are responsible for helping out in just about every natural disaster, war, power outage and anything else where a cellphone signal cannot be had.
In truth though, hams are just a bunch of likeminded nerds with a love of the airwaves.
Fun fact! I’m studying for my amateur radio technician license and learned that ham came from calling amateur telegraph operators’ sloppy work ‘ham-fisted’. The amateur radio community decided to lean into it, and thus the ham radio operator was born