A hobby is not a barrell to be filled.
It is a flame you are burning into.

Very many people is asking me why I'm "hamming". Why to climb the roof in the rainest and coldest day of November to fix an antenna? Why I'm wasting time and money to build or buy strange stuff, as long as all I get is some beep-beep-beep or a distorted voice? Why all these, as I have for less money and time, the phone -classic or mobile-, the Internet and many other options to communicate?

This is my answer: hamradio is not only a hobby or a sport. It's a SPIRIT. The Ham Spirit, connecting millions of persons in a single, gigantic and unbreakable family. The feeling of being part of this family is the true sense of my hobby. I have learned, living the ham spirit, to help myself helping others, and to do it cheerfuly.

I'm asking now, on my turn: isn't this enough to worth climbing the roof?

YO5QCD, Liviu