{"id":10141,"date":"2023-02-22T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/is-this-the-origin-of-the-term-ham-radio\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:26","slug":"is-this-the-origin-of-the-term-ham-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/02\/22\/is-this-the-origin-of-the-term-ham-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the Origin of the Term &#8220;Ham&#8221; Radio?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEiJUNEj0xrc6T2w9am0ugRvVRBMcWdZausAe9cbhnOPAUHsMMjuyJpSN8N6BHSBG9rMle-rKjHm_3ZAnqTmI3GQrHwrZ45Ubfa-kAAAAH-hVf_g_dQ70yKHa8zJm7S0ED-rp1BZTqopeLTp2r33oyYsEUkSVTaavLYJRGYaUsJR7OojMEcQoY5YhZdb\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1066\" data-original-width=\"860\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image_1753120526.png\" width=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click on the image for a better view<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>The timing (1895) and the context (railroad telegraphy) seem about right. But other etymologies are out there. Lexicographer Steve Silverman KB3SII is on the case. What do you guys think? Are the roots of &#8220;ham&#8221; radio in railroad telegraphy? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the image for a better view The timing (1895) and the context (railroad telegraphy) seem about right. But other etymologies are out there. Lexicographer Steve Silverman KB3SII is on the case. What do you guys think? Are the roots of &#8220;ham&#8221; radio in railroad telegraphy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,31,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-radio-history","category-silverman-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}