Hali , I only saw him in passing at FAU. I didn't stay for the night and didn't catch his show. I can't remember if he was wearing shorts or not. Maybe he's not a shorts guy. When I see people with big radios at cons, I think they're con staff. I thought he was con staff. I knew that we had our own piano-guy but I never knew what he looked liked, even when I saw pictures of him because he looks like everyone else.

"I have to get ready for the show and I need my keyboard," he said when talking to  bodak and then hurried off carrying a radio with a long antenna.

"Oh you're the piano guy! I said as he walked away. He stopped with a bit of a stomp and turn around quickly.

"Yea, I AM the piano guy!" he said. He wasn't angry or anything. I think he was just surprised that someone would call him that.

"Oh cool! I heard about you from way back! I thought you were staff with that walkie-talkie," I said.

"This isn't a walkie talkie. It's a ham raido."

"Ham radio is still a THING?"

"Oh yea," he said with big eyes "it's just as big as it ever was. This thing," he waved his hand radio about like a whip antenna in an automated car wash, "reaches for miles!"

"Wow."

He talked to Bodak some more and that was that. I wonder what you talk about in Ham Radio. Do you talk to truckers? That's CB radio but is it the same as Ham? 1970's technology marches on.