View Full Version : You know you've been a ham too long if...
n2cfj
04-02-2007, 12:25 AM
today I came to the realization that my brain thinks Ham first:
Today while driving through a the Village of Sleepy Hollow, NY, a route I take about once a year, I saw a large sign a couple of blocks ahead that said WA6ABI. I was trying to figure out why a call sign would be on a big sign.
As I got closer, I realized that it was a sign for a Japanese restaurant, written in letters to look like Japanese calligraphy. The name was Wasabi but my word recognition reaction was to see the s as a six.
KC9ECI
04-02-2007, 12:36 AM
Mmmmm....wasabi! Love the stuff. Great on roast beast.
too long if....
You see your wife nude and you push her belly button trying to get her dual bug catchers to tilt back up to the operating position.
ka5piu
04-02-2007, 06:28 AM
Hello.
Perhaps a bit long if,,.
You hear that there really are flying saucers and the first thing you want to know is what kind of rig they have.
Too long if you find yourself trying to decode squeaks from the copy machine, heating duct etc.
73 JP, K8AG
PS: It would be worse if I actually copied something. ;)
You're a ham for too long if... You watch Jericho on CBS just to decode the morse code message each week.
(that's me...)
WA7KKP
04-02-2007, 08:17 PM
You've been a ham too long if . . . .
You still believe AM to be better than SSB, and prefer names like Collins, National, Johnson, and Hallicrafters over Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, and Alinco.
Gary WA7KKP
KI4ITV
04-02-2007, 09:19 PM
You've been a ham too long if . . .
if in your mobile phone, your wifes phone number is stored near the end of the list under XYL.
Quote[/b] (K8AG @ April 02 2007,10:27)]Too long if you find yourself trying to decode squeaks from the copy machine, heating duct etc.
73 JP, K8AG
PS: It would be worse if I actually copied something. ;)
Guilty! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
ae6rf
04-02-2007, 10:20 PM
You see a potential antenna support every time you look at a tree... # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
73 de Donald
ka0gkt
04-03-2007, 12:19 AM
...if the computer on your desk at work has QRZ.com as its home page.
...if the custom ring on your cell phone sends -..- #-.-- #.-.. when your wife calls.
...if you are driving down a scenic highway and stop to look in awe at the triple stack of twenty-meter long johns on a rotating Rohn tower.
OBTW, WA6ABI currently isn't issued...I don't know if it is available as a vanity call.
WA5ABI is issued to Martha B Graf in Santa Fe, NM. I wonder if she has noticed how much her call looks like Wasabi...WASABI!
73 DE KAØGKT/7
--Steve
KD6NIG
04-03-2007, 12:24 AM
When you go on a camping trip, and you tell your wife she can only take one bag-otherwise there won't be any room for the ham gear.
W4MAJ
04-03-2007, 12:47 AM
My call sign is sewn onto my Army duffel bags.
WA2ZDY
04-03-2007, 12:56 AM
Quote[/b] (WA7KKP @ April 02 2007,16:17)]You still believe AM to be better than SSB, and prefer names like Collins, National, Johnson, and Hallicrafters over Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, and Alinco.
You forgot MY favourite: Hammarlund.
VA3SAX
04-03-2007, 12:59 AM
it just has to be said: you start a thread about being a ham for too long. I'm also guilty of trying to copy random noises
W5HTW
04-03-2007, 01:12 AM
Quote[/b] (VA3SAX @ April 02 2007,17:59)]it just has to be said: you start a thread about being a ham for too long. I'm also guilty of trying to copy random noises
There ARE no random noises. Those machines are trying to tell us something. You have to be more diligent in listening to that noise from the garbage disposal. Block out the random grinding, use DSP if you have to, but there is a message in there. Just hope it isn't "I'm constipated."
Ed