Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

a) You NEVER EVER NEVER throw away old magazines or data books. Reason: "You never know when you
might need something in there." This includes complete sets of QST and CQ from the 1970s.

b) your garage has no cars in it: that's your "storage" area (see #1 above). If married over 15
years, wife gets 1 side of garage. You grumble at the waste of good space.

c) your car has more than 2 antennas

d) your attic has over 5000' of wire you found on the side of the road, removed from old
equipment or found in a dumpster. You have wire over 20 years old. Your prized wire is 50pr
telephone cable.

e) ANYTHING must be repaired before a new purchase. This includes items that can be bought for <
$10, but you want to spend 5 hours 'fixing' it because you can make it 'better than new'.

f) Besides MOTM, you NEVER spend over $500 on anything that plugs into an AC outlet. Garage sales
are your friend. You look at eBay occasionally, but scowl at the over-inflated prices morons pay
for 'junk'.

g) You will gleefully pay $20 for a 120lb. 19" rack mounted, 30" deep 1972 HP frequency counter
that consumes 1000W and "needs some work" but think spending $89 for a new, really good DVM is "a
waste of money".

h) your 'rig' has 23 different components, 3 different antennas and has a combined cost of over
$7,000 and 2000 man-hours invested to make the equivalent of a 10 cents/minute phone call.

Paul S.
not a HAM, but been around them :)