Al posted this; I thought it was funny, so I repost :) Paul --------------------------------------- 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.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dx4win.com
