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 could get
 MG> licensed too, but the only thing that stuck was ...---... (or was that
 MG> ---...---?) :)

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

 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, Tom,
 SD>> is KA4VVA.

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

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

 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.  :)

LOL

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

Ed

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