Ward and Group, As a casual contester, I haven't really felt like I had much to offer regarding spurring participation and recruiting new contesters. However, lately, one of my 16 year-old daughters
Author: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:09:06 -0500
The question of getting youth into contesting, and ham radio, is a difficult nut to crack. Two observations: 1. One big difference between contesting and gaming is that there is no such thing as defe
Hi Eric Thanks for sharing your observations. I am an OF like you, and have come to a few conclusions - right or wrong. I think the best thing we can do is to show youngsters how much fun WE are havi
I can't get my offspring interested. My youngest still talks about all the bad behavior that he has heard on the radio. Sadly, the FCC has really let us down here. Ham Radio is an escape, why peopl
Tom, Many thanks for taking the time to write. I agree I have shown my kids and their friends how much fun playing radio is for me. They are actually very impressed with my tower and giant SteppIR, a
Ive never heard that complaint from my 3. They help me with projects and they like making contacts with me. Of course I keep away from the upper end of 75m and certain frequencies on 40 and 20. They
This is a long, but good thread. If I may, and as someone who (as N2IC has pointed out to me privately {and correctly} is a dinosaur), does not even have Internet in the shack and still clings to TR-