[Dx4win] Smile

Sun, 19 Oct 2003 20:04:12 +0200

You may laugh, but below are my TRUE responses:

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Paul van der Eijk
Sent:	Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:04 PM
To:	[email protected]
Subject:	[Dx4win] Smile

Al posted this; I thought it was funny, so I repost :)

Paul
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You Know You're a Ham if :
- You buy electrical black tape in ten packs.: YES, OFCOURSE!
- You've stripped wire with your teeth. YES. IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY TO DO
IT?
- You've told your son that, "One day, all this will be yours", and he
doesn't respond.: YES, BUT I COULD  READ HIS THOUGHTS IN THE QRM..
- You'd rather help a buddy put up a new tower than mow the lawn.: YES, IT
IS ALL NATURAL..
- You've grabbed the wrong end of a soldering iron.: OH YeeeeS !
- You start giving out RST reports when you are on the telephone.: NOT YET
- The propagation forecast means far more to you than the local weather
forecast.: OF COURSE..
- The microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to
the front to fix it.: VERY OFTEN
- You tell the XYL, when she notices a new rig in the shack, why that has
been there for years.: GOOD TO KNOW I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE !
- Your watch is set only to UTC.: ONLY IN THE SHACK, BEFORE RETIREMENT
- At night, when you pray, it starts off something like: CQ CQ CQ GOD DE
(your callsign).: I PRAY GOD THAT DX RESPONDS..
- You ever had to patch your roof after an antenna project: YES, AND WASH
OFTEN MY BALCONY FROM THE BIRDS' SHIT (TOWER CLOSE TO HOUSE)
- Ham radio magazines comprise more than 50% of your bathroom library.: ALL
OF THE LIBRARY
- You ever put a GPS tracker in the XYL's car, just so you could watch her
on APRS.: NO APRS USE YET HERE
- You and the XYL took a cruise so you could visit the radio room: YES, AND
THE RUSSIAN CAPTAIN THOUGHT I WAS A SPY WHEN I ASKED HIM TO SEE IT DURING
THE LAST MONTH MOSCOW-ST. PETERSBURG CRUISE
- You ever tapped out HI in Morse on your car horn to another ham.: NO. I
ALWAYS PLAY "73 DE F6GNZ"
- You ever had an antenna fall down.: NO. ONLY TOWER WITH ALL THE ANTENNAS
- Your teenager refuses to ride in your car because it looks like a
porcupine.: THAT'S WHY I BOUGHT HIM A CAR
- You know the Latitude and Longitude of your home QTH.: AND A QRA LOCATOR
- You go into the local Radio Shack store and the clerk asks you where
something is.: NO RS STORE HERE...
- YOU LOOK OFTEN TO THE SKY TO SEE IF DX CONDITIONS ARE GOOD: ADDED AS I DO
IT  :) !

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Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD)
[email protected]
http://www.dx4win.com

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