Or when out on a Sunday drive with the XYL you point homes as "great ham locations!". When shopping for a new home, antenna considerations were highest priority. Holidays are scheduled in areas/dates with great hamfests or ham conferences.
73, Ed - KL7UW At 10:48 AM 2/24/2011, wa4...@comcast.net wrote: >You Might Be (and Probably Are) >an Amateur Radio Operator, If: > > >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. > >This one is actually being done by Tim Clark, KB4RPV: > >35. Your cell-phone's ring tone is your Ham radio call sign, sent in >Morse Code http://www.planetofnoise.com/midi/morse2mid.php). > >______________________ > >Thought this might be worth a little chuckle >WA4HFN > > > >_______________________________________________ >Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. >Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! >Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-1.4kw*, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-winter? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep dubus...@hotmail.com ====================================== *temp not in service _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
