Sorry OM
the term was in use MANY years B4 1959
I first heard it shortly after the end of W.W.II
K6EXO
----- Original Message -----
From: Radios R Toys <w0opw@yahoo.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: [AMPS] Whither the 807?
>
> I'm going to have to fess up to this. I believe that
> myself and another teen age ham began using the terms 807
> and 6146 back around 1959 as a form of code to discuss on
> the air what we had been doing without our elder bretheren
> on 80 meters knowing. To my knowledge, we independently
> created the terms, but my memory could be faulty due to the
> many 807's and 6146's since that time.
> W0OPW
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