Mickey, Boy, you know how to hurt a guy! I worked my way through college as a telegraph operator and manager handling telegrams and money orders for Western Union. And BTW, we even had a telegraph key on a dedicated line in the Hyannis office to contact our serving office in Boston “when all else fails”. (I think I was the only one in the office who knew how to use it.) Dave K3ZJ From: arrl-odv <arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org> on behalf of "Baker, Mickey, N4MB (Dir, SE)" <mbaker@arrl.org> Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 4:37 PM To: "Famiglio, Bob, K3RF (VD, AD)" <RBFamiglio@verizon.net>, "Temples, Phil K9HI (VD,NE)" <phil@temples.com> Cc: "arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org" <arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:34481] Re: Radiogram greetings < > The process then - as is the same 45 years later - was to emulate a telegram. You can see that from this delivery. Most of us have never seen a real telegram ! < > Mickey N4MB