HAM Radio is an interesting nickname for people who engage in the hobby
known also as Amateur Radio. It's origin comes from the early days of
radio--before the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC) was formed. Early
radio experimenters were not licensed and had no assigned call signs, like
modern HAMS. One of the original stations operating from Harvard, used the
call letters H-A-M which stood for the first letters of each of the surnames
of the operators; Albert Hyman, Bob Almy, and Peggie Murray. When proposed
federal legislation threatened to destroy Amateur Radio, Hyman went to
Washington to testify and defend his station "HAM." As a result the word
"HAM" came to mean a radio hobbyist, licensed by the FCC in the Amateur
Radio Service.
HAM Radio operators have developed ways to communicate not only on the
original frequencies allotted to them by the FCC but on new frequencies
acquired over the years. HAMS were prime inventors of different modes of
communication in common use today. They continue to develop new forms of
communicating. Cellular telephones are a HAM invention, along with many
other commonly used communications devices.

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