In a message on Saturday 09-23-16 Jimmy Anderson said to Holger Granholm:

Hello Jimmy,

 HG> OK first, please tell me what you put into the expression
"HAM" that
 HG> you use so frequently.

JA> Amatuer Radio - be it the user, the equipment, whatever. 

 JA> use HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed

 HG> 'Use HAM', what is that??

JA> Use a amateur radio - that better?

 JA> through the HAM, through the radio network to a place that DOES have
 JA> Internet service, then be delivered to their family in Chicago.

 HG> And again, what does 'through the HAM' mean?

JA> Via the radio waves that amatuer operators use.
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Thank you for the explanations.

I am a licensed radio amateur (= a HAM) since 65 years back, and have
read, mostly american litterature, about amateur radio (= ham radio),
since maybe 1946.

So far I have never heard/read, anybody using the term HAM, as loosely
as you do. That's why I had to ask.


CU L8ER,

Holger

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