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Origin of the term<\/b> “Elmer<\/b>” The term<\/b> “Elmer<\/b>“–meaning<\/b> someone who provides personal guidance and assistance to would-be hams–first appeared in QST in a March 1971 “How’s DX” column by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD (now also VA3ZBB). Newkirk called them “the unsung fathers of Amateur Radio.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Elmer Award – ARRL<\/a><\/h3>\n
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www.arrl.org\/elmer<\/b>-award<\/cite><\/p>\n

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Origin of the term “Elmer” The term “Elmer“–meaning someone who provides personal guidance and assistance to would-be hams–first appeared in QST in a March 1971 “How’s DX” column by Rod Newkirk, W9BRD (now also VA3ZBB). Newkirk called them “the unsung fathers of Amateur Radio.” Elmer Award – ARRL www.arrl.org\/elmer-award American Radio Relay League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","glossary-cat":[],"class_list":["post-227","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry","nodate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"glossary-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ke7tvz.com\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary-cat?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}