Author: NM5M via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:59:24 -0400
If you want to attract youngsters to the hobby its pretty simple, you have to invest YOUR time by attending general purpose radio clubs regularly and inviting younger hams (or any ham with even the s
Most of my co-workers and friends roughly 40 and under that learn of my radiosport activities ask a lot of questions. Many appear very interested. However at some point two questions tend to come up
I absolutely agree with the need for faster results. Waiting until May to learn the winner of November SS was understandable 40 years ago when paper logs were state of the art. Now my log is in ARRL
With 3830, we pretty much know the results, as long as people post their score. If you explain that knowing how you placed takes a year without telling them any other aspect of the story, sure, it pu
I do attend the monthly local club meetings AND I even host the annual ARRL FD exercise at my air conditioned QTH for the local (Non contest club) I still end up with empty seats during mm contest !!