• You start calling CQ in you sleep.
  
  
• You taught your dog to communicate by barking Morse code (and he can do it at 50 WPM.)
  
  
• During Field Day, you fix lunch by throwing a brisket over the long wire antenna for your kilowatt 23-cm transmitter. By the time you've made a few contacts...Fajitas!
  
  
• Your kids have their Extra class tickets by the time they're seven.
  
  
• During a landline phone conversation, you attempt to press the side of the phone handset when it is your turn to talk.
  
  
• People mistake your car for a giant porcupine.
  
  
• When ending a phone call, you say: "73," give your callsign and say "clear."
  
  
• Your QSL card collection is thicker than ten Houston phone books.
  
  
• You bought the house next door just so you would have space for all your radios and antennas.
  
  
• Your local ham radio store already has a parking space with your callsign painted on it, and they are getting ready to offer you partial ownership.
  
  

• When you are talking by telephone with KD5OZM (Micheal A Falcon) and you ID with KD5OZM every 10 minutes and you ask the other station for their callsign and they give you their phone number. -- KC5PYG

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