Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> 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.

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

That I do.  :)

 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. :-)

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

 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. ;-)

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

-- 
L'Chaim,
Mimi

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