1. You know the Latitude and Longitude of your home QTH

2. Your teenager refuses to ride in your truck/car because it looks like a porcupine.

3. Your XYL refuses to ride in your truck/car because all the radios give her a headache.

4. You ever replaced a perfectly good car battery just to get a higher capacity one.

5. When looking for a new home you seek high ground elevation and an area with no antenna restrictions - forget what the house looks like.

6. You ever had an antenna fall down.

7. You ever had the same roll of coax up at 3 different locations.

8. Your XYL accuses you of moving all those boxes of wire for the last 20 years, but never using any of it.

9. You wear a watch that displays time in a 24-hour format

10. You use your ham call as a computer password.

11. You use your ham call as part of your email address.

12. You've spent an evening trying to explain to your wife all the neat stuff that the new hand held you want does so much better than the one you bought just last year.

13. You have ever taken radios and control heads with you while car shopping to make sure everything fit before you made a purchase.

14. You have ever bought a present for the XYL on the way back from the hamfest, something to keep her distracted while you sneak that new rig into the house. Once it's in the shack, she'll never notice it.

15. You have had many other interest over the years but you keep coming back to the tried and true hobby of amateur radio.

16. You know who High Falls John is.