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You Know You're a Ham if:
- you read the newspaper aloud, phonetically spelling
out the headlines
- when you end a phone call you give your callsign
- your Christmas tree is adorned with Amateur Radio
ornaments
- your Christmas tree has an antenna on top of it instead of
a star
- your Christmas lights blink Christmas tunes in Morse Code
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you assign your own personal callsigns to your children,
relatives, pets etc.
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you assign ITU Zones to
each room of the house
- you yell for the kids to come down for dinner and begin
with, "CQ CQ CQ..."
- your Christmas gift nightgown suspiciously looks like a
radio
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Your
child might become a ham if
- all of their science projects involve Ham Radio
- they tap out "QSY 2 the potty" in Morse Code at the age of
18 months
- they assign themselves a callsign
(HI HI
Justin *wink, he wants KD8JVD and Sammi wants KD8SAM,
so they'd better hurry up and study because the issued signs
are up to KD8EKK!)
- you
buy black electrical tape in packs of ten.
- 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 YL, 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 YL's car, just so you
could watch her on APRS.
- you and the YL 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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