{"id":128,"date":"2007-09-02T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T23:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:17:36","slug":"derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/2007\/09\/02\/derivation-of-karl-z-wog-thanks-to-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Derivation of "Karl Z. Wog" (thanks to M.I.T.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a teen-aged amateur radio operator (“ham”), I had call sign K3SGM in Maryland and W0HHG in Missouri. I had a rubber address stamp that read “Charles H. Sauer W0HHG”, and used the stamp routinely. When I used it to stamp my return address on an admissions application to M.I.T., the response was addressed to “Charles H. S. Wohhg”. (I was admitted, but decided to go to Carleton College, instead.)<\/p>\n

This greatly amused me and my high school friends in the “briefcase gang”. They started calling me “Wohhg”, pronounced “Wog”. One\u00a0gave me the moniker “Carlywog”. That also evolved to my most common usage, Karl E. Wohhg, and corresponding initials K.E.W.<\/p>\n

Years later, the credits in Jack Moore<\/a>‘s Sandscript<\/a>\u00a0listed “sound tech by Dr. Karl Z. Wog”.<\/p>\n

As a teen-aged amateur radio operator (“ham”), I had call sign K3SGM in Maryland and W0HHG in Missouri. I had a rubber address stamp that read “Charles H. Sauer W0HHG”, and used the stamp routinely. When I used it to stamp my return address on an admissions application to M.I.T., the response was addressed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8c9uP-24","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}