The most complete list yet…….You might be a HAM if….! <\/p>\n
* You know the Latitude and Longitude of your home QTH.
\n * You ask for a Bird 43 for a Father’s day gift.
\n * You receive a Bird 43 for a Father’s day gift.
\n * You calculate the HAAT for your new QTH before you sign the loan papers.
\n * Your teenager refuses to ride in your car because it looks like a porcupine
\n * Your XYL refuses to ride in your car because all the radios give her a headache.
\n * You ever replaced a perfectly good car battery just to get a higher capacity one.
\n * Your criterion for a new QTH includes ground elevation, and no antenna restrictions.
\n * You ever received a TVI complaint.
\n * You ever loaded up something strange like your bedsprings or gutters.
\n * You tried to figure out how to put a stealth antenna onto a public utility pole
\n * Your neighbor threatened to call the FCC for you interfering with an electronic device in their house.
\n * You ever had an antenna fall down.
\n * You ever had the same roll of coax up at 3 different locations.
\n * Your XYL accuses you of moving all those boxes of wire for the last 20 years, but never using any of it.
\n * You wear a watch that displays time in a 24-hour format.
\n * The local Radio Shack knows you by name.
\n * You consider a repeater directory a necessary glove box item.
\n * You ever took a detour just to look at a new tower that has sprung up.
\n * You use your ham call as a computer password.
\n * You ever used your ham call as a part of an email address.
\n * You ever bought a ham study guide for another family member in hopes of getting her\/him interested.
\n * You plan your vacation to take in as many hamfests as possible.
\n * You’ve ever figured out how long a slinky really is.
\n * You ever tapped out HI in Morse on your car horn to another ham.
\n * You remember people by their call sign better than their names.
\n * You ever took a spring vacation to Ohio, so you could drop in on Dayton.
\n * You go to an antique flea market with your non-ham spouse, just so she\/he would feel guilty when you > wanted to go the ham flea market.
\n * Your call sign shows up on your business cards.
\n * You ever put a GPS tracker in the XYL’s car, just so you could watch her on APRS.
\n * You and the XYL took a cruise so you could visit the radio room.
\n * Ham radio magazines comprise more than 50% of your bathroom library.
\n * A ham radio activity is included in your business resume.
\n * You have taken a radio to work just to see how you get out or to use during a lunch hour.
\n * You’ve looked at the cordless phone and wondered if you could tweak it over to a ham band.
\n * You’ve automatically tuned into the RACES or ARES freq. during a storm rather than the Nat. Weather > Service.
\n * Your tried to bring in SW by modifiying a crystal radio.
\n * You factor in a few extra hours on a business trip so you can visit a ham radio retail establishment
\n * You ever fell off a ladder while putting up an antenna.
\n * You ever put up an antenna in a snow storm.
\n * You ever had to patch your roof after an antenna project
\n * Your teenager thinks all your friends are weird.
\n * You have many other interests, but over the years keep ham radio as a core activity.
\n * You actually try your radio’s submersible capability while taking a bath.
\n * You convert a walking stick into a pedestrian antenna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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