BAREFOOT - How most hams in the tropics operate.

BEAM - What hams do after busting a really tough pileup.

BEVERAGE - Coffee, tea, milk, soda, beer.

BREAK - Usually happens when you drop a piece of equipment

BUREAU - Chest of drawers where you keep 100,000 qsl cards.

CLUSTER - What hams do when the doughnuts arrive at the club meeting.

COAX - Another term for telling the radio operator to please come to dinner.

CODE - How it might feel when it's snowing outside.

DUCTING - Winterizing your shack with a special kind of tape.

DX WINDOW - Nice to have near your radio so you can see how bad the lightning is outside.

ELMER - They make a popular brand of glue.

EMISSIONS - What happens if beans are served at Field Day.

FEEDLINE - Telling a fib at your radio club meeting.

FULL QUIETING - The rest of the family is away while you are contesting.

FREQUENCY - The number of times within 10 minutes that a yl has to call her om to dinner.

HERTZ - What happens when you get shocked.

INPUT - What you hear from the police on 14.195, 21.295 etc.

INSULATOR - Used to keep your drinks hot or cold.

IOTA - Chance you have of working Heard Island with a qrp signal.

LONG PATH - Distance from your radio to your bathroom.

MICROWAVE - A quick place to fix a meal so you can contest more.

MODE - What hams have to use after having a few beers.

PATCH - What you will need to do to the hole in your wall after you find out the super rare dxpedition was the previous weekend.

PHASE - Whether you are currently in the mood for dxing, contesting or ragchewing.

PICKET FENCING - Taking a break from dxing to decorate your yard.

PILEUP - What the leaves are doing in your yard while you spend all your time dxing.

REPEATER - The police that tells you what the police just said on 14.195.

RIG - What some might be tempted to do to their contest scores.

RTTY - Often mispelled version of ratty, a description of some ham shacks.

SENSITIVITY - Ability to take criticism on air for transmitting on the wrong VFO.

SKIP - When you stay home from work so you can work the dxpedition.

SLIM - See IOTA.

SPLATTER - Flying insects are hitting your bugcatcher antenna.

SPLIT - What you might want to do after calling the dx on his frequency 27 times when he is not listening there.

SPURS - Worn by hams that are cowboys.

SQUELCH - What some people might want to do to you for playing radio too long.

SWITCH - Decide to change from cw to ssb.

THIRD-PARTY - Your third contesting effort of the year.

TUNER - It tastes pretty good on a sandwich.

VOLTAGE - The number of years the electrons have been there.

WATT - Asking for a repeat from a 2x2 station - you are 59, WATT is your callsign WATT is your callsign?

WAVELENGTH - The number of times a yl has to wave at her om to come to the dinner table.

WORK - Where you should be instead of dxing.

YAGI - He managed the Mets and Yankees.

ZERO BEAT - Number of times you worked Heard Island with your qrp signal and how you feel afterwards.

73 - Number of times some people will continue to call on the dx's frequency even though he is obviously operating split.