I think that giving a possibillity to visit a local club is essential to bring the new "fresh blood" to our hobby (not only a youngsters) If you read stories of young hams just notice that most of th
Remi, Igor and Zoli Yes, its good to remember those days.. It makes me think that perhaps we are giving more weight to the playstations , Internet and other "sources of distractions" than we have to.
Hi Mark. Well, it's not for lack of trying over here! Our Club in Norwich is now 120 strong, but I would think that only about 20% are interested in CW or Contesting. I find that we have to keep push
All, This is a great thread -- thanks to N4ZR for starting it. I'm always interested in real data when topics like this one emerge. My email provider and I may both regret this, but if you're interes
Apologies, Roger. There are a number of hams doing great work in this area. I did not mean to imply that there were not. I DID mean to imply that there are not as many doing this great work as used
Since we're on the subject of youth and contesting, please take a moment to pass this to any young ham, a parent of a young ham or post in your next club publication. Once again we are sponsoring one
John, in many Eastern European countries, you could operate for many years from club station without so-called license. I knew quite a few guys who were prominent contesters, winning many contests ov
92 years. 15 years 16 years. 55 years fairly active, between 1960 and 1980 contesting was very light. 73, Jim w3cp, former calls W3CPB, W5CPB _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
John, 1) Your age 47 2) Age you got your first license 13 3) Age you started contest operating 13 4) # of years of contest experience 34 I was introduced to ham radio from my father who was a ham.. H
Mike, Very insightful, in fact I can relate to everything you say except the father thing, since my Dad had nothing to do with technology. but my experiences almost the same, my eleven yr old had sho