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- … that the name of the HF data mode Pactor joins "packet" and "AMTOR", the two earlier modes whose ideas it combined?
- … that the shorting stick used to discharge boat anchor capacitors is sometimes called a "chicken stick"?
- … that halving the frequency cuts a small magnetic loop's radiation resistance to one sixteenth?
- … that a former ham whose license was revoked may not speak over another ham's station as a third party?
- … that a GAP vertical is really an asymmetric dipole standing on end, fed at an insulated gap partway up the mast?
- … that the 1.25-meter band is still nicknamed "220", although the FCC reallocated 220 to 222 MHz to land mobile services in the late 1980s?
