[AMRadio] You Might be a Phony Operator if...

[jon baker]

   You always refer to yourself as "We" even when alone in the shack.
   You use a computer to key and receive CW!
   You think "homebrewing" involves beer or wine.
    Gotta' be plenty more?
   This thread may become quite fun?
     Jon, AD5HR
--- On Sun, 7/10/11, D. Chester <k4kyv at charter.net> wrote:

> From: D. Chester <k4kyv at charter.net>
> Subject: [AMRadio] You Might be a Phony Operator if...
> To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 12:39 PM
> 
> You think a Johnson Kilowatt Matchbox is a "2.4 KW Tuner"
> 
> You refer to one's name as the "first personal" or just
> "personal".
> 
> You end a QSO with "Seventy-Thirds" or "Threes".
> 
> You try to enter an ongoing QSO by yelling "Contact".
> 
> You finish an AM transmission in a QSO that is NOT
> operating fast break-in, 
> and just drop the carrier with no prior warning like a
> callsign, saying 
> "over", "back to you", "go ahead", etc., leaving the other
> operator(s) 
> wondering if you lost power or your rig crapped out.
> 
> You pronounce QRZ.com as "CUE ARE ZEE dot com".
> 
> You tell someone with a strapping signal he is "wall to
> wall, treetop tall".
> 
> You call operating AM "Going to the AM side".
> 
> You insert "there" between every two or three words in your
> conversation.
> 
> You call the phone bands the "SSB bands".
> 
> You think the ideal horizontal antenna is the G5RV, and the
> ideal 160m 
> vertical is 43 ft. tall.
> 
> 
> 
> Depending on your knowledge, experience and attitude as an
> amateur operator, 
> what others can you think of?
> 
> 
> Don k4kyv
> 
> 
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