Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Sean Dennis wrote:
 MG>> Sean Dennis -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 SD>>> Hello, Mimi.

 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 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 that
 MG>> ---...---?) :)

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

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

 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."

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

 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. :-)

But such a nice one. :)

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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