[CQ-Contest] ARRL Field Day

[David Gilbert]

I think you may be missing the point.  Young people today don't find 
basic operating for ham radio particularly enticing, so pushing them to 
work on those skills first isn't likely to be much of a recruitment 
success.  The whole idea was that young people find computers more 
interesting and less "fringe geeky" than ham radio by itself.  Is a 
youngster more likely to want to sit down at a station with point/click 
display on a monitor, or at a station with a knob?

Forcing people to look at the hobby the way we did 40 years ago isn't 
going to be much of  a draw.

73,
Dave   AB7E


On 6/9/2010 3:36 AM, jpescatore at aol.com wrote:
> If you are introducing potential contesters to contesting via Field Day, I think it is much better to get them running stations, vs. using spotting - they will be much better off getting comfortable with running, since that is often a real big obstacle to non-contesters.
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> If you introducing new hams to ham operating in general via Field Day, I think it would be much, much better to have them turn a dial, recognize calls themselves, vs. at an early stage in their operating start out being "click and shooters."
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> For introducing contesters to spot-assisted computer logging, or for contesters looking to maximize FD contacts, sure - but for newbies, FD should really be about improving basic operating skills.
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> John K3TN
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