| - you buy electrical black tape in ten packs. |
| - 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 XYL, 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 XYL's
car, just so you could watch her on APRS. |
| - you and the XYL 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. |