In a message on Saturday 09-23-16 Jimmy Anderson said to Holger Granholm:

Hello Jimmy,

OK first, please tell me what you put into the expression "HAM" that
you use so frequently.

Amatuer Radio - be it the user, the equipment, whatever.

use HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed

'Use HAM', what is that??

Use a amateur radio - that better?

through the HAM, through the radio network to a place that DOES have Internet service, then be delivered to their family in Chicago.

And again, what does 'through the HAM' mean?

Via the radio waves that amatuer operators use.

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Thank you for the explanations.

I am a licensed radio amateur (= a HAM) since 65 years back, and have
read, mostly american litterature, about amateur radio (= ham radio),
since maybe 1946.

So far I have never heard/read, anybody using the term HAM, as loosely
as you do. That's why I had to ask.


CU L8ER,

Holger

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