[SOC] You Know That You Are A Ham - - -

[Bob Nielsen]

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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