I recently got back into ham radio (99% of my interest is contesting). I'm now 36 and was first licensed at age 12. One thing I find interesting is the number of young people in the rufzxp toplist: h
I agree with Zack's point wholeheartedly. Pitching radio just as a way to talk to others, which puts it in competition with cell phones, Skype and the Internet, is a mistake. For me, a better pitch w
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 18:35:43 +0200
When I tell people that my hobby is amateur radio, they usually ask me if I play music on air. I then try to explain what amateur radio is all about and tell them that one of the things we do is comm
Completely agree. What is it that ham radio has which is not available to any other citizen communication service anywhere? (Citizens Band and freebanders notwithstanding) The answer is a completely
Here is something that I wrote a couple decades back -- it's a tad "dated" now, but I think the central premise holds... Dit dit, Hans, K0HB --11 What is Ham Radio, and How do I get started? - A shor
Ham radio had that kind of appeal fifty years ago because for most of us it was the best way to get something done (i.e., communicate around the world). That no longer is even close to being true, an
Similar Situation. Go figure the guy (ME) that has limited income, what does he do? He has TWO hobbies that can be and now days mostly are expensive to do. Radio, & Astronomy. These two hobbies are v
A couple of comments: a. I don't believe for a minute that the number of licenses translates to the amount of activity on the bands. Most bands are practically dead much of the day even now that the
Re[ly to paragraph A below This I agree 100% I had a down time from ohhh 1993 till about 2005, And when I fired up the Old Drake that was sitting in the damp basement, I thought it had died because w
Dave and I normally agree on most issues, but I think this pessimism is unwarranted. What is needed, I think, is a long-term, consistent, correctly-targeted effort to persuade young people that the p
In the past several months there have several ads on TV pushing millionminds (I think that's what it is called) as a program to get kids more interested in math and science. Time Warner has had ads t