[AMRadio] You're a Ham if :

[Dino Darling]

Or you REALLY have too much time on your hands and you RESPOND to people 
who write sonnets! :-)

At 06:02 AM 10/06/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>I'll add another:  - you have too much time on your hands so you try to
>write sonnets!
>
>Dave, W3ST
>Secretary to the Collins Radio Association
>Publisher of the Collins Journal
>www.collinsra.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Dorworth K4XM <k4xm at arrl.net>
>To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 8:02 PM
>Subject: [AMRadio] You're a Ham if :
>
>
>
>You're a Ham if :
>       - you buy electrical black tape in ten packs.
>       - you've stripped wire with your teeth.
>       - you've told your son that, "One day, all this will be yours", and he
>doesn't respond.
>       - you'd rather help a buddy put up a new tower than mow the lawn.
>       - you've grabbed the wrong end of a soldering iron.
>       - you start giving out RST reports when you are on the telephone.
>       - the propagation forecast means far more to you than the local
>weather forecast.
>       - the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush
>up to the front to fix it.
>       - you tell the XYL, when she notices a new rig in the shack, why that
>has been there for years.
>       - your watch is set only to UTC.
>       - at night, when you pray, it starts off something like: CQ CQ CQ GOD
>DE (your callsign).
>       - you ever had to patch your roof after an antenna project.
>       - Ham radio magazines comprise more than 50% of your bathroom library.
>       - you ever put a GPS tracker in the XYL's car, just so you could watch
>her on APRS.
>       - you and the XYL took a cruise so you could visit the radio room.
>       - you ever tapped out HI in Morse on your car horn to another ham.
>       - you ever had an antenna fall down.
>       - your teenager refuses to ride in your car because it looks like a
>porcupine.
>       - you know the Latitude and Longitude of your home QTH.
>       - you go into the local Radio Shack store and the clerk asks you where
>something is
>
>
>
>
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