Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 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
 MG> 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
 MG> baby
 MG>>> and always had a special place in his heart.

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

 MG> That I do.  :)

Our fond memories of loved ones who have gone on ahead are little reminders
that they still love us and are waiting for us to rejoin them when our time
comes.

 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
 EH>> burned in
 MG>>> letters that said that and I've erroneously attributed that to his
 EH>> radio
 MG>>> (it hung on the wall above his "rig" (am I
remembering correctly that
 MG>>> the setup is called a rig?)

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

 MG> It's so cool to remember something from that long ago. :)

Yep.

 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. :)

 EH>> Do I ever have you fooled. ;-)

 MG> Nope, if you have me fooled I'd think you are what the Trio says about
 MG> you. You've got *THEM* fooled.  :)

The trio's opinions are insignificant. They often project their own
attitudes onto those they hate.

Ed

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