Here in Salina, the local Radio club set up in one of the local
area parks for the "Jamboree on the Air" for the Scouts, we had 8 to 10
club members show up (youngest 33) and a whopping total of 4 Scouts. The
local area Boy Scout Council was totally un-interested in participating in
the event. Two of the 4 Scouts were sons of one of the club members, a
third was a down the block neighbor.
Talking to someone in Central America on SSB did not hold their
interest, but the laptop set up to do PSK-31 and RTTY did. It would seem
that the Digital modes may be one of our stronger drawing cards.
Sid N0OBM 599 56 56
At 22:21 10/18/2004, Don Hill AA5AU wrote:
I feel the same way as Larry. When I see how old some of us are out there, I
only pray I'm still around to pound the keys when I get to some of those
ages I
received this past weekend. I thought about that a LOT this weekend.
It's true, we are missing the youth element in Amateur Radio. The only
thing we
can do about it is to go out of our way to encourage young people to get
involved if they are interested. They don't know if they are interested
unless
they are some way exposed to Amateur Radio. I'm not sure what can be done
about
that.
73, Don
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