You Know You're a Ham Operator If:


YOU KNOW YOU'RE A HAM OPERATOR 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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