You know your an old buzzard if

[K3ZS]

You go to a new chapter meeting of the QCWA and nobody there has ever been on AM!

[Pete, WA2CWA]

You go to a new chapter meeting of the QCWA and nobody there has ever been on AM!

You should probably add it to this thread:
http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=7480.0

Wonder if there's a HCWA

[wb1aij]

1.Someone plays back a recording they made of you on the air and you bore yourself to sleep.

2. You say "By Golly" in your transmissions.

3. You need a 10 minute timer to remind yourself that you have to I.D. every 10 minutes.

4. You say, " OK ON THE," and repeat everything the other guy told you on his transmission.

5. You wear plaid trousers, a striped shirt with a skinny tie or bolo, and a baseball cap to hamfests.

6. You get out of breath and pant in the microphone just from the exertion of talking.

[w1guh]

You go to a new chapter meeting of the QCWA and nobody there has ever been on AM!

You got a meeting of the QCWA and everyone else is a youngster.

[c. mac neill w8znx]

you once put Ozona Bob to sleep

[W3SLK]

mac said:

you once put Ozona Bob to sleep

Now THAT IS an old buzzard!!!

[k4kyv]

The paper in your first handbook and your old logbooks has turned yellow.

[W9GT]

1. You know what chassis punches are for, and you use them regularly.

2. You think black wrinkle panels, glowing tubes, analog meters, steel racks and chassis are far cooler than "flex radios".

3. You held a KN, WN, or WV call as a novice.

4. You had a mobile rig that used a dynamotor for B+.

5. You know what a neutralizing condenser is.

6. You remember when AM was the prevalent mode on the phone bands, not just on a few select "AM window" frequencies.

Maybe being an "Old Buzzard" is a distinction to be proud of???

73,  Jack, W9GT

[K1JJ]

You say, "kilocycles" with the same pride as the old-old buzzards (like George/W1GAC) says, "condensor".

And you say it like you're just egging for a challenge from the new schoolers...

T

[wb1aij]

The REAL old buzzards used to talk in wavelength rather than frequency so if they were talking about going from 80 meters to 160 meters thet would say, "I am going up to 160"

[KB2WIG]

OLD Buzzards will tell you ' boute the "Top Band" being 400 meters....

[wa2zdy]

A few of these examples make ME feel old.  And even though I've been a ham almost 32 years (not that long in the overall scheme of things,) I'm only going to be 45 in two weeks.

If I'm an old buzzard, I'm proud of it.  Must be why I keep my Vibroplex in good form!

[Tom WA3KLR]

You remember when western PA was 8-land and New Joisey was 3-land.

You operated 200 meters.

[wa1knx]

when your scrotum hangs below your knees, oops 

[WA1GFZ]

when your gut hangs below your scrot................

[KB2WIG]

"when your gut hangs below your scrot................"   and you reeally dont care that it does.... klc

[k4kyv]

You refer to your transmitter's variable master oscillator as an ECO instead of a VFO.

Your transmitter uses link coupling between stages, and/or link coupled output.

You even know what link coupling is.

Your final tubes operate in pushpull.

Your transmitter uses plug-in coils.

Your receiver uses plug-in coils.

You rember operating crystal controlled.  You called CQ, and ended the call with the phrase "carefully tuning." Then you switched to the receive mode and proceeded to tune from the top end of the band downwards or vice versa.

On phone you give "R" reports instead of "S" reports, and your receiver has an "R meter."

You won't let the cat into your shack because of all the exposed HV in the transmitter.

Some of your receiving tubes have 4, 5,  and 6 pins.

You recall a "transceiver" as being a  little super-regen job for VHF, but you called them ultra high frequencies. 

You remember when the bands above 30 mc/s were known as "5" and "2 1/2" metres.

... when the low bands consisted only of 160, 80, 40, 20 and 10m.

... when 11m was a ham band.

... when 40m was CW-only.

... when 160m went all way down to 1715 kc/s.

... when the AM broadcast band was 550-1500 kc/s.

... when the FM broadcast band was 42-50 mc/s

... when the 75m phone band was 3900-4000 kc/s

... when there was an 80m phone band in the vicinity of 3550 kc/s.

... listening to police calls between the AM broadcast band and 160m.

... Heinz-Kaufmann transmitting tubes.

... when you could still buy brand new Taylor tubes.

... when you could buy tubes.

... 211/VT4-C's sold at hamfests for 35 cents each, and 304TL's were under $5 n.i.b.

... Radio Row on Cortlandt Street.

... computers used "IBM" cards with the little rectangular holes punched in them.

... the Extra  Class ticket came with a wall certificate, smaller but otherwise identical to a commercial FCC licence.

... when Novices were limited to 75w xtal controlled, and expired after 1 year, non-renewable.

... before there ever was a novice licence.

... when the Advanced class licence was known as "Class A."

... "portable-mobile" operation.

If you held a "primary" callsign, and another "secondary" callsign at a different location.

... you hold non-vanity 1X2 callsign.

... you ever played 78 rpm records on a "grammophone."

[k4kyv]

You realise you are older than the President of the US.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

You talk about being an old buzzard.

[K1JJ]

You ask the chick at the check-out counter for her phone number and she threatens to call the cops.

T

[Carl WA1KPD]

All pictures of your first rig are in black and white

Hosstraders would always be in Deerfield

Hatrys had a helpful staff

Hatrys existed

You ran a “Twoer” mobile

You really mounted your Hustler to the bunper

[The Slab Bacon]

You run into an old friend that you havent seen in years, and before long you are discussing aches, pains, and current ailments

[WA1GFZ]

Great I'm not a buzzard...my first rig is in color. Yea

[wa2zdy]

... the Extra  Class ticket came with a wall certificate, smaller but otherwise identical to a commercial FCC licence.

... when Novices were limited to 75w xtal controlled, and expired after 1 year, non-renewable.

Well, my Novice was for two years but yeah, up or out. 

[W3RSW]

You remember extremely crowded bands especially Saturday and Sunday, or any evening, All day... every day...  just like it was last week.

The upper half of the band was screamin' with thousands of CW qso's interspersed with a couple of loud RTTY's.
- From amazing speed ESSO high seas ops. slummin' on the ham bands, through WWII vets pround of their speed to lowly, legal JN's strugglin' with "E, I, S, H and 5."

The lower half was wall to wall heterodynes.. with hundreds of JN's bootin'with their 6L6's, screamin' "CQ, CQ somebody please.." 
 
Ah yes, and like majestic sailing ships on the high seas..
Two or three KW's resounded.
Heterdyne free,
No background hiss..
just a few tiny garbles and whistles faintly in the background.

Somewhere in the middle of about any band, Radio Moscow "IF'd" into the general bedlam....  +/- 455kc into infinity.
-Ture Radio.
And all this with your SX-xx, five tuber of choice....

Man ! ... for many reasons.... oh, did I mention Radio?....  I'd love to go back.