20 Aug 08 19:40, Ed Hulett wrote to Roy Witt:

 EH> Roy Witt -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 RW>> 19 Aug 08 19:35, Ed Hulett wrote to Roy Witt:

 MG>>>>>>> licensed Ham radio operator and cell phones
use the same sound
 MG>>>>>>> waves 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
 MG>>>>> could get licensed too, but the only thing that stuck was
 MG>>>>> ...---... (or was that
 MG>>>>> ---...---?) :)

 RW>>>> SOS and OSO, respectively. I'm a HAM too. K6RXT (Advanced
 RW>>>> License)...my 'elmer' was K6XT and could carry on a conversation
 RW>>>> with you in person and also carry on another conversation at
 RW>>>> 30wpm, pounding the brass key.

 EH>>> At one of our local radio club (Radio Club of Tacoma) meeting we
 EH>>> had a gentleman who held the record at 77WPM. He could carry on a
 EH>>> verbal conversation and 3 CW QSOs at the same time. He used CW
 EH>>> typewriters to copy CW with.

 RW>> I imagine that Art could do that too. He didn't need anything to
 RW>> write it down, though. Everything happened in his head.

 EH> This guy kept every one of his QSOs in a filing cabinet.

Wow...

                R\%/itt



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