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   Sean,   
      
   SD>It may not make complete sense to you but we hams consider our callsign a th   
   SD>of pride and we normally identify each other by our callsigns rather than ou   
   SD>names.  Daryl will frequently address me as "COL"; that is common amongst ha   
      
     And, as hams, our first name is our first name, and our surname is our   
   callsign. We have no clue (in most cases) what the hams' surname is.   
   However, if the ham with us is our spouse or girlfriend (obviously   
   speaking from the male person here), we had BETTER know the surname.   
   Plus, we wear name badges at hamfests, so we can make like we've known   
   everyone for years. Yet, we don't know most from Adam and Eve.    
      
   SD>(who's a ham in more ways than one)   
      
     I was, too...involved in theatre arts in high school and college, long   
   before I got into amateur radio. But, I used those talents one year at   
   the ARRL Delta Division Convention, in playing 2 of the characters in   
   the initiation ceremony for The Royal Order Of the Wouff Hong. I got a   
   standing ovation for my efforts.   
      
     Ironically, the head of the Radio/TV/Film Department at the time, and   
   one of the other individuals, are both licensed hams, and are husband   
   and wife (or as hams term them, OM (for old man, generic for the men),   
   and XYL (or as hams term them, Ex-Young Lady (more appopriately, wife).   
   For the non-hams, YL, can stand for young lady or girlfriend.   
      
     Just like any other hobby, ham radio has its own lingo. I have a door   
   on the BBS, with a bunch of these ham radio terms.   
      
   Daryl, WX4QZ   
      
      
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