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Amateur Radio Club (CN- HARC). “Amateur means we don’t get paid, but op- erators are very proficient at what they do.” Christopher started the


CNHARC after being part of the White Mountain Amateur Radio Club in the late 1970s. Then there were about 16 members. Today the membership roll has about 130 names. Club members get to-


gether on the first Tuesday of every month at the Gil- ford Community Church. Where the name “Ham” comes from isn’t quite writ- ten in stone. “There are all kinds of theories,” said Christo- pher.


THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 21, 2012 One was that in the early


days of telegraphy some of these operators be- came radio operators and they were known as be- ing “Ham-Fisted.” Another theory is that at one time many amateur operators competed for signals and caused interference, Com- mercial operators called them “Hams” and soon the amateurs wore it as a badge of honor. Christopher, a Laconia


native, became interested in ham radios fifty-five years ago when he was 16. He got his first ham radio license in 1958. “Back then it was hard


to do,” said Christopher. “There was no formal study guide like there is today.


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You just had to study ev- erything.” You had to start out as


a novice and be one for a year until you could upgrade. Novice meant sending and receiving five


words a minute in Morse Code (which is no longer required). Novices were restricted to Morse Code. The next level was “Gen- eral” which is 13 words a minute.


Christopher was at the


“General” level through his college years and then got out of it for awhile as he went into the navy where he was an electronics of-


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SOLDIERS ON SKIS - Camp Hale and Beyond A “Summer Series” lecture at the Wright Museum


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