[GreenKeys] NPR: Amateur Radio is growing...

[Carter]

On 4/6/2010 12:47 AM, Don Robert House wrote:
> The word amateur is often used as meaning not professional, the actual
> meaning is closer to unpaid. Even more interesting is the derivation of
> the word which originally meant "to love"
>
> I still have not figured out where HAM came from...
>
Don't feel bad. NO ONE has the -definitive- answer, not even the ARRL. 
Having said that, my money is on "ham" as being like a ham actor. 
Remember, this was during the heyday of the broadcasting era and amateur 
radio was a way for the average Joe Citizen to get -his- very own 
broadcasting station and be, well... a ham.

Just my 2 cents.

73,
Carter  K8VT