Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 SD>>>> Monday August 18 2008 at 22:14, you wrote to Ed Hulett:

 MG>>>>> licensed Ham radio operator and cell phones use the
same sound
 MG> waves
 MG>>>>> that Hams do/did (do Hams still exist?)

 SD>>>> IIRC, there's about 600,000 licensed hams in the US alone. :)

 MG>>> I'm glad to hear that. Daddy tried to teach me morse code so I
 EH>> could get
 MG>>> licensed too, but the only thing that stuck was ...---... (or was
 MG> that
 MG>>> ---...---?) :)

 EH>> They dropped the code requirement last year. Some old timers think
 EH>> that's a thing.

 MG> Daddy died 35 years ago and I was a teenager still living at home when
 MG> he wanted me to learn it. After my mother died (46 years ago) daddy
 MG> would think of things for just him and me to do together. I'm the baby
 MG> and always had a special place in his heart.

That's neat. I imagine you have some fond memories. :-)

 SD>>>> My callsign is KD5COL and my wife's is KI4OTP.  My parents are
 MG>>> known as
 SD>>>> KD7SXQ (my dad, Lyle) and KD7SXR (my mom, Jan).  My birth father,
 EH>> Tom,
 SD>>>> is KA4VVA.

 MG>>> Daddy was the "Old Sarge". I never understood
that name because he
 EH>> was a
 MG>>> captain, not a sarge. Daddy had a bizarre sense of humor.

 EH>> He should have had a call sign. Not many HAMs use "handles."

 MG> It occurs to me that I'm remembering a wooden sign with those burned in
 MG> letters that said that and I've erroneously attributed that to his radio
 MG> (it hung on the wall above his "rig" (am I remembering
correctly that
 MG> the setup is called a rig?)

Heh heh... yep, we refer to our radios/setups as rigs. :-)

 SD>>>> Oh, we exist.  You just don't know about it until a disaster
 MG>>> strikes. :)

 SD>>>> Check out http://www.hello-radio.org for more info or
 MG>>> http://www.arrl.org.

 SD>>>> I believe Ed's a ham too.

 MG>>> I didn't know Ed's an actor, let alone a bad one.  :)

 EH>> LOL

 EH>> Yes, I'm a very bad actor. :-)

 MG> But such a nice one. :)

Do I ever have you fooled. ;-)

ED

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