[ARRL-OK] You Know You're a Ham if :
D C (Mac) Macdonald
k2gkk at juno.com
Sun Jan 7 13:24:12 EST 2007
You Know 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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