This is great! GRIN! 73: J. John Jacques Amateur Radio Station: KD8PC "Where Cat Is, Is Civilization!" --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M and L Dorn <[log in to unmask]> To: (Recipient list suppressed) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:28:19 -0800 Subject: You might be (and probably are) an Amateur Radio operator, if: Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> > >1. You have bought black electrical tape in ten packs. > >2. You have stripped wire with your teeth. > >3. You have told your child, "One day, all this will be yours," and he or >she did not respond at all. > >4. You would rather help another Ham friend to hook up new equipment, or >to put up a new tower, than to mow your own lawn. > >5. You have grabbed the wrong end of a hot soldering iron. > >6. You have gotten an RF burn from your own antenna. > >7. You have given out RST reports while you were on the telephone. > >8. When the microphones or visual aids at a meeting did not work, you >rushed up to the front to fix them. > >9. You have told the XYL, when she noticed a new rig in the shack, "Why, >that has been there for years." > >10. You have set your watch to UTC only. > >11. You have had to patch your roof after an antenna project fell onto it. > >12. You have put a GPS tracker in the XYL's car or on the riding mower, >just so you could watch it on APRS. > >13. You have tapped out "CQ" or "HI" on the car horn in Morse Code to >another Ham. > >14. Your teenager has refused to ride in your car because it looks like a >porcupine. > >15. You know the Latitude, Longitude, and Elevation of your home QTH. > >16. You have gone into the local Radio Shack store, and the store clerk >has asked you where something is and how it works. > >17. You have answered the telephone with your call sign, and then finished >the conversation with "73" and your call sign. > >18. You have looked for antennas, radios, and Morse Code in movies and >television shows. > >19. When you look at anything made of wire or metal tubing, you wonder if >it could be used as an antenna. > >20. Your call sign is listed on one or more of your hats, T-shirts, or >other garments. > >21. You regularly carry one or more tools in your pockets at any given time. > > 22. When any kinds of batteries go on sale, you get really excited. > >23. When you look at a barbecue grill, it creates ideas about ground plane >antennas. > >24. You have designated all your friends as Hams or Non-Hams. > >25. You have referred to your Ham friends by their call sign suffixes >instead of their real names. > >26. You have intentionally confused Non-Hams by telling them that the only >things you talk about on the air are pork products. > >27. You have intentionally scared Non-Hams with the word "RADIATION"! > >28. You have looked at telephone poles and power line towers as potential >antenna supports. > >29. You have thought you were still hearing CW, SSB, or SSTV tones, even >when your Ham radio was off. > >30. Your Go-Bag has more clothes in it than your dresser does. > >31. You have a SKYWARN sticker on your back window. > >32. Your significant other sits in the back seat, and your radios ride in >the front. > >33. Your neighbors wonder if you are a "Narc" (narcotics officer), a Spy, >or a Federal Agent. > >34. The cops pull you over because they want to see the inside of your car. > >35. Your cell-phone's ring tone is your Ham radio call sign, sent in Morse >Code