On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:34:04 -0400, in rec.radio.amateur.antenna you
wrote:

Hi Rob,

Gotta' ask 'ya. Didn't you tell your bride-to-be that you were a ham, and might
need an antenna, before you asked her to marry you? Something like a pre-nup?
Walt, W2DU

Before I married my wife (40 years ago in August!) I showed her the
ham shack and had a QSO on 160m (AM phone in those days!) with her
present. I let her say hello to some guy across town, warning her that
it was illegal in the UK then for someone unlicensed to speak over
amateur radio so she'd better make it quick. Her first words on 160m
were, " I think I'm breaking the law by talking to you...." !!! Thank
God it wasn't 20 metres or the whole world would have heard her!

She's been very tolerant ever since...

Peter, G3PHO