Real world rules for Ham Radio

 This will be a living document. As more rules occur to me, or are passed along, they will be added here.

 K2ENF Rules for Ham radio

1: Everything you do with your station affects everything else, both inside and outside your station.

2: After a few months of being a Ham you will realize that a drug addiction would probably have been cheaper.

3: CB operators will always be loathed by older hams, even though well over half of the hams of the last 20 years came from CB.

4: A non-conversational mode (say, FT8) will always be dumped on by operators whose radio conversations seem to revolve around their recent bout with (Insert a list of health issues you really don’t want to know about, here)


5:Tech of any sort appears totally unnecessary to those who don’t understand it.


6: Technology invariably moves many times faster than government (The FCC, the commerce Dept, your local zoning board...) is capable of.

7: Your list of friends will be centered around those similarly afflicted with the radio virus.

8:”That’s not Ham Radio” will forever be the battle cry of those resisting tech changes in Ham Radio.

9. Forget the amp. Concentrate on the sound. If you sound large, you are large.

10. RF is going to come out somewhere; and not always where you intend it to!