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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This is really good ALL…W1PE</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#580E00'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'>You might be (and probably are) an Amateur Radio operator, if:<br><br>1. You have bought black electrical tape in ten packs.<br>2. You have stripped wire with your teeth.<br>3. You have told your child, "One day, all this will be yours," and he or she did not respond at all.<br>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.<br>5. You have grabbed the wrong end of a hot soldering iron.<br>6. You have gotten an RF burn from your own antenna.<br>7. You have given out RST reports while you were on the telephone.<br>8. When the microphones or visual aids at a meeting did not work, you rushed up to the front to fix them.<br>9. You have told the XYL, when she noticed a new rig in the shack, "Why, that has been there for years."<br>10. You have set your watch to UTC only.<br>11. You have had to patch your roof after an antenna project fell onto it.<br>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.<br>13. You have tapped out "CQ" or "HI" on the car horn in </span><span class=ecxyshortcuts><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Morse Code</span></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'> to another Ham.<br>14. Your teenager has refused to ride in your car because it looks like a porcupine.<br>15. You know the Latitude, Longitude, and Elevation of your home QTH.<br>16. You have gone into the local </span><span class=ecxyshortcuts><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Radio Shack store</span></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'>, and the store clerk has asked you where something is and how it works.<br>17. You have answered the telephone with your call sign, and then finished the conversation with "73" and your call sign.<br>18. You have looked for antennas, radios, and Morse Code in movies and television shows.<br>19. When you look at anything made of wire or metal tubing, you wonder if it could be used as an antenna.<br>20. Your call sign is listed on one or more of your hats, T-shirts, or other garments.<br>21. You regularly carry one or more tools in your pockets at any given time. <br>22. When any kinds of batteries go on sale, you get really excited.<br>23. When you look at a barbecue grill, it creates ideas about </span><span class=ecxyshortcuts><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>ground plane</span></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'> antennas.<br>24. You have designated all your friends as Hams or Non-Hams.<br>25. You have referred to your Ham friends by their call sign suffixes instead of their real names.<br>26. You have intentionally confused Non-Hams by telling them that the only things you talk about on the air are pork products.<br>27. You have intentionally scared Non-Hams with the word "RADIATION"!<br>28. You have looked at telephone poles and power line towers as potential antenna supports.<br>29. You have thought you were still hearing CW, SSB, or </span><span class=ecxyshortcuts><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>SSTV</span></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'> tones, even when your Ham radio was off.<br>30. Your Go-Bag has more clothes in it than your dresser does.<br>31. You have a SKYWARN sticker on your back window.<br>32. Your significant other sits in the back seat, and your radios ride in the front.<br>33. Your neighbors wonder if you are a "Narc" (narcotics officer), a Spy, or a Federal Agent.<br>34. The cops pull you over because they want to see the inside of your car.<br>35. Your cell-phone's ring tone is your </span><span class=ecxyshortcuts><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>Ham radio call sign</span></span><span style='font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#2A2A2A'>, sent in Morse Code</span><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>