In a message on Saturday 09-23-16 Jimmy Anderson said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hello Jimmy,   
      
    HG> OK first, please tell me what you put into the expression "HAM" that   
    HG> you use so frequently.   
      
   JA> Amatuer Radio - be it the user, the equipment, whatever.    
      
    JA> use HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed   
      
    HG> 'Use HAM', what is that??   
      
   JA> Use a amateur radio - that better?   
      
    JA> through the HAM, through the radio network to a place that DOES have   
    JA> Internet service, then be delivered to their family in Chicago.   
      
    HG> And again, what does 'through the HAM' mean?   
      
   JA> 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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