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RE: How do we get Youth Involved?
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by STU on July 30, 2001
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Im 17 and am just getting involved in the hobby. My fascination with scanners drew me into the ham scene several years ago , but the requirments looked too hard. Just recently I saw the movie frequency, where a father communicates with his son in the future over ham radio. However non-realistic that made me remember my interest.
I dug up my Old Gordon west cw tapes and began to read literature.
I think that getting youth involved is a fairly passive process. You can't make kids become hams, but they may not find out about the neat hobby without exposure to it.
I first learned of vhf/uhf radio while backpacking in the New Mexico Mountains. A school trip that all freshman must under go is supervised every year by ham handhelds, for safety purposes. Back then I had no idea that the radios were hams, I just thought they were walkie talkies, but I was selected for my mountaineering skill to help carry / setup the schools peater to a mountain top. A ham who teaches at school taught us all about ham radio on the 12 mile hike up the mountain, which was 12 miles more than the rest of the kids went. My friend and I were especially fascinated by packet operation, and HF worldwide bands. That was my beginning of my fascination.
Now with the new license structure it is really easy to get a license, and once finding this out I decided to go for it again.
Ham radio offers many facets of learning and challenge and I think that all industrious, curious, and technologically oriented youths of today need is exposure to the hobby. From there it is up to them.
Just my youthful perspective
73's
Stu
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by KC2FDQ on August 27, 2001
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Either we introduce amateur radio through schools, Field Day, or even contests, for example, the Jamboree.
Or, if we really want to amaze our friends, we can try to contact a satellite, or the ISS? :-)
Yes, anybody can pick up a phone, and call somebody in another town, or another country. However, not everybody can say that "yes, I can talk to people from South America, without the use of telephone lines." :-)
I'm also starting a HF net, in conjunction with the LYRA. For young hams, to meet other young hams, etc.
If anybody is interested in joining, please e-mail me @ mattmont@att.net
Thanks & 73
Matthew
KC2FDQ
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by KD5LPE on October 26, 2001
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Hello Brian,
My name is Mike and my call is KD5LPE. I am 13 years old and blind. One way you can get youth involved is to get ham radio taught in schools! First of all, it needs to be taught in schools because the youth need to learn more about it so they might become intristed. Secondly, they are teaching other things, so there is no reason to keep ham radio out of it. I heard of a club that incorperates ham radio into math, geometry, and english. Good luck,
Mike
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by AD7DB on October 29, 2001
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I had the privilege of operating the 10m SSB station for the K7UGA special event a week ago.
Logged lots of contacts, coming in fast & furious at times, but when I got called by a "Jamboree on the Air" station, I decided to chat awhile with the various Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts they had there.
I felt real good about doing that for them, because I remember a ham doing nearly the same thing back when I was a scout and there was an event station set up.
BTW, nobody complained either; they patiently waited for me to finish with the scouts!
Dave AD7DB
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by N0YVW on November 30, 2001
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I'm in my 30's now, but I can still tell you what it would've taken to get me involved.
Being given the opportunity.
I wanted to be a ham starting when I was 9, but didn't know how to go about it. It took me 14 years to do it. Had somebody announced in one of my HS Science classes that an Amateur Radio class was being offered, I would have been there, and so would many of my friends. I'm certain that the same is true today.
Just recently, one of our local instructors was asking another on the air about how to get some younger people to sign up for a new Tech class being offered. I came back and suggested that they contact local HS science departments and ask them to mention it in Electronics and Physics classes, or in Physics Club.
Would you believe that nobody had thought of doing something that simple?
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by KC9AZL on March 13, 2002
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A system that would allow local hams to come out and give exams to people. Many people can not get to an examination.
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by KE4SKY on March 18, 2002
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Youth are the future of our hobby, and it behooves every amateur to do their part to get young people interested, help them get licensed and to keep them active. Disaster relief and ground SAR require operators in good physical condition with stamina to operate in the field under difficult conditions. That's a tall order for the average ham over 50 in our aging community. Maturing young operators are very badly needed in ARES, RACES, Skywarn, CERT and other community and public service groups. We will need them all.
The Virginia RACES Training Page has a variety of materials which should be of interest to new hams, and are a good refresher for experienced operators too. All are free downloads in Adobe Acrobat 5.0.
Please visit our web site at http://www.varaces.org and then click on the Training and Video Page.
73 de KE4SKY
Virginia RACES STate Training Officer
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by WPSP389 on February 2, 2003
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In these days of modern communication via cellphones, Internet chat rooms, ICQ, etc. One would have to wonder how and what youth would do with yet another form of communication. What is this thing "ham" radio?
What is it used for?
Perhaps, we should consider how we are presenting the very idea of "ham radio" itself. When most youth are introduced to "ham", they are shown walkie takies, boxes with dials, wires, batteries, or coax cable etc.
We should consider how they might view this form of communication in today's convenient "no hassle" high tech forms of communication. Gee, when I was a kid, a string tied to 2 soup cans was my earliest form of communication. If i could talk to sally in the other room without seeing her at the same time, it was definetly a DX contact! After all, how can you get a youth excited about using an autopatch, when they have a cell phone plan, no licencing, or test required ?
Obviously, for most older hams, a simple autopatch is more appreciated because it still posesses a certain level of "magic" associated with the idea similar to
captain kirk contacting his ship with a communicator.
As technology evolves, amateur radio technology is viewed on the simple priciples of wireless communication. Youth may ask why buy a "ham" radio when I can use this FRS one for much less cost?
Most Hams will tell you it goes beyond this, and I tend to agree. How can you explain to someone about the excitement you feel about cutting a copper wire to the right length and achieving the ultimate SWR ? ---- (SWR ? Dad? what's that?)
Do we market ham radio like the cell phone companies market cell phones? How is ham radio better than MSN instant messenger? Do ham radios have a "buddy" list?
I wonder how youth is viewing ham radio exactly anyways? When we find out, lets change it.
Mabey the ham radio community needs to advertise on TV with a commercial of a guy on a jet ski holding his trusty ham radio. "Ok, suzy- you got it, i'm bringing it home"
Another idea of a commercial would be to replace the current "Join the US Army commercial" and replace it with "Join RACES" "It's not a hobby, it's an adventure"
Replace Microsoft's commercial with, "Talk to an Astronaut orbiting in space today?"
Imagine the excitement of talking directly to an astronaut in space ?
Now that's good marketing !
73's
Charles Bushell
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