{"id":6849,"date":"2012-05-01T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/soldersmoke-lexicographer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:50:29","slug":"soldersmoke-lexicographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/soldersmoke-lexicographer\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Lexicographer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike, AA1TJ, is the QRPoet Laureate, but I think we can now officially name Steve Silverman, KB3SII, our official SolderLexicographer:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Hi Bill<\/p>\n

Here is an interesting possible explanation for the term LID:<\/p>\n

‘It’s a term that goes back to land based telegraphers, before radio was even used. Some say it has to do with placement of a tobacco can or lid to enhance hearing the telegraph sounder. Such things were apparently trademarks of the poorer ops.’<\/p>\n

So there you, using a tobacco can sounder “hearing aid” defined you as a LID, as in using the lid of the can to tune your RIT. But in telegraph location with lots of QRM, such as in a major telegraph office or along side of a noisy train track, the lids enabled an operator to distinguish his sounder from the background clicks and clacks. The Car Talk guys would love this explanation.<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

Steve<\/p>\n

KB3SII<\/span><\/b> <\/p>\n

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Mike, AA1TJ, is the QRPoet Laureate, but I think we can now officially name Steve Silverman, KB3SII, our official SolderLexicographer: Hi Bill Here is an interesting possible explanation for the term LID: ‘It’s a term that goes back to land based telegraphers, before radio was even used. Some say it has to do with placement … Continue reading “SolderSmoke Lexicographer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}