My high school also had a Ham Radio club, the physics teachers was a ham.
The scout troop I belonged to also had a club with really nice equipment and
plenty of space for HF antennas which we constructed, erected and tested.
The days of Magnets and Miracles.
Mike
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I went to 2 high schools in the 50's. Both had ham clubs with stations and I
learned the code and took my Novice at the first.
Carl
KM1H
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From: "Mike" <noddy1211@sbcglobal.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Fleamarkets and more
>I have tried many times to get people from my local club (40 members) over
> to my station. Our local club like most in the USA and has turned into a
> 2
> meter repeater support club and most of the discussions are about how to
> improve the club repeaters and how best to spend the club funds on them.
>
> Clubs are not what they were 20 years ago unfortunately.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> The discussion here is alarming but absolutely true. I wonder if most of
> us
> are at fault by not allowing those "newbies" or future "newbies" to come
> to
> our stations/shacks/shops and see, touch (no HV), smell, and experience HF
> ham radio. To see what it is to build our own equipment and operate on
> HF.
> To hear the guy from Portland or Madagascar coming out of the speaker. To
> see the electronic shop and projects on the bench. I know that caught my
> attention many decades ago.
>
> Lee - K0WA
>
>
> In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you
> don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you
> can't find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some
> Common
> Sense. Is Common Sense divine?
>
> Common Sense is the image of the Creator expressing revealed truth in my
> mind. - J. Wolf
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