Prometheus Definition Poll

Finally, democracy is getting somewhere. This November, Wisconsin voters will decide on the definition of a word: “marriage.” In recognition of this landmark step for American democracy, Prometheus Polling Service has readied its first public poll. Instead of defining marriage, we have decided to have you, our readers, define a term that has been declining in popularity even faster than marriage. The term is, of course, “ham radio.” Remember, as you make your choice, that you are living out democracy, and that you are ensuring that your children will remember ham radio as whatever they want to think that it is.

Please choose the answer which best defines “ham radio” for you.

a) the action or the power of describing, explaining, or making definite and clear
b) a radiocommunication service in which radio apparatus are used for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication or technical investigation by individuals who are interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest
c) the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law
d) game played between two teams on a rectangular field having two goalposts at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking
e) Write-in definition:_____________________
f) A, B, & D
g) None of the above

(Nick Jordan)