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

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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 !

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Mickey N4MB