On: One Man's Quest to Prove Vermont Has Terrible Cell Service

This is false.

Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20090527172642/http://w1af.harva...

https://www.rcarc.org/presentations/Ham_Radio_History.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio#False_e...

I know that the story about Hyman and company is false. That’s why I put the word “apocryphal” in there, which means “erroneous or fictitious.” But people still write HAM in all uppercase because of the legend, false or not.