History
Homage
Ohmage
Calls
Electronics
100

ARL founder and gun buff

Hiram Percy Maxim

100

Name of ARL magazine

QST

100

Christmassy color codes for numbers 2 and 5

Red and Green

100

ARL station callsign

W1AW

100

Ohm's Law (compares E, I, and R)

I equals E over R  (I = E/R)

200

Inventor of Audion amplifying tube

Lee DeForest

200

City 50 mi off I-95 where ARL HQ is located

Newington CT

200

Non (blah) colors used for characters 0, 1, and 8, 9

Black, brown, and grey, white

200

TARC club callsign

W5IAS

200

Polarity of first transistors made (in 1947)

PNP

300

One of 3 inventors of transistor

Dr William Shockley, Brattain, Bardeen

300

City in Ohio where they have the biggest Hamfest every year

Dayton

300

Color code for a 47k resistor

Yellow, violet, orange

300

Barry Goldwater's (SK) callsign

K7UGA

300

Medium power final tube type often used as 'code' for having a beer

807

400

Alpha character used for call prefixes in 1930s

W

400

Callsign district that only includes one state

6

400

Color code for a 51 Ohm resistor

Green, brown, black

400

Art Linkletter's (SK) callsign

K4LIB

400

US standard tube type often used to replace S2001 finals in Japanese HF rigs

6146

500

Alpha character used for call prefixes after they ran out of W and K calls

N

500

W9CXX used his last name for well known radio company in Iowa (born in OK)

Art Collins

500

Conservative  color sequence for a 33k resistor

Orange, orange, orange

500

Callsigns used by previous King and Queen of Jordan

JY1 and JY2

500

Peak voltage of a 120V sine wave

120 times sq root of 2

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