Thank you for introducing me to 'Silent Keys'. It's a great way to remember my dad. I'll introduce a story about him: My father was unable to get ahold of my m

Thank you for introducing me to 'Silent Keys'. It's a great way to remember my dad. I'll introduce a story about him: My father was unable to get ahold of my mother (with me inside) who had made an emergency visit due to me putting up such a fuss being trapped and wanting out. She was not home when he got home from work. He tried calling the hospital but either no one picked up or could help him. It was at that point that he reached out to some friends he had on the ham radio who managed to contact another radio enthusiast who lived nearby the hospital who was able to walk over and confirm that she was indeed there. At which point he got in his Dodge Omni and drove into town. I remember thinking it remarkable when he described this to me years later as perfectly reasonable and that he had to reach out from the Adirondacks to someone in Mississippi who then reached out to someone back in the Adirondacks due to practicalities I still don't really understand. Something about how it was more reliable to communicate past a certain distance than someone very close to you. I think I ended up all right, birthed 10 days late. Poor mom.