Paul-
I am really surprised at you! You completely forgot to mention that
a person will know if they're a ham if they show BUTT CLEAVAGE!!!
Chub- with fully covered posterior!
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@a...> wrote:
> 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 :)