 | Robert, KE4MCL: |
| 1) you've argued with the waiter over a 0.25 overcharge |
| 2) you've picked up a computer on the side of the road
while on a date |
| 3) you're significant other sits in the back and radios
ride in the front |
| 4) birds call your car the grim reaper because of all the
antennas |
| 5) you own a few weather stations |
| 6) you own more HT's than hands |
| 7) you shop for a piece of land to hold an antenna tower
that coincidently has a
house on it |
| 8) you're neighbors think you're a fed |
| 9) the cops pull you over because they want to see the
inside of the car |
| 10) you order drive through before getting to the sign |
| 11) you get excited over bad weather |
| 12) you have a skywarn sticker on your back window |
| 13) you keep track of solar cycles on a calendar |
| 14) you go to a tailgate and there isn't a football fan in
sight |
| 15) free fleas are a good thing |
| 16) talking about a radiating element makes your buddies
giggle |
| 17) you got upset when the guy in "frequency"
transmitted via his receiver. |
| Ray, KD4BBM |
| You refer to TV stations by call sign, not channel number. |
| You frequent RadioShack but would deny it to anyone who asks. |
| You know 276- is the start of part number for semiconductors at
RadioShack |
| You give directions based on towers instead of landmarks |
| You know 'scanner' is a radio device, not a document device |
| You know 'dish' is a type of antenna, not something you serve food on. |
| You know 'microwave' is medium, not something you cook food in. |
| You think an upside to gaining weight is more belt space for radios |
| You know your home's GPS coordinates down to the minute |
| You have more waypoints in your GPS than phone numbers in your cell
phone. |
| You can adapt any connector to any other connector (but it might
involve 20 or more adapters in between) |
| You buy a new car based on its antenna mounting possibilities |
| You've answered the question `what's your address?' with four octets. |
| Your UPS has a UPS |
| Your TV antenna transmits |
| A tall building without antennas on top is just plain ugly. |
| Even your friends know your car's license plate number |
| You immediately think of `tower' when someone says the
word `erection'. |
| You actually know the difference between baud and bits per second |
| Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls makes you
think of numbers. |
| You've tested a 9 volt battery with your tongue |
| You think a good B+ is better than an A |
| You own more Radar guns than Radar detectors |
| You've sat in a hot car on the radio to talk to someone you could
have called on the phone from your air-conditioned house. |
| Brandon, N4BGW |
| You know you're a ham if you wear a DCAT Search &
Rescue shirt to school,
and only 1 other person out of 3600 know what the hell DCAT is! |
| You also know you're a ham if you are that one person that
knows! |
| You know you're a ham if you like things on eBay with >1
Min. listed next to
it! |
| You also know you're a ham if that thing with the >1
Min. is something you
will never use but like the price! |
| You know you're a ham if you tuck your radio into bed. |
| You know you're a ham if you know the local police
frequencies down to the
ten-thousandeth and PL's. |
| You know you're a ham if your idea of fun is playing on
radio towers. |
| You know you're a ham if you have your work radio
frequencies programmed
into your HT, for those who are skinny and don;t have much belt room. |
| You know you're a ham if you can use a radio to make a
phone call. |
| You know you're a ham (or related to one) if you go into
severe depression
and self-denial without reading your email for a day! |
