[CQ-Contest] recruiting yourth methods

[David Gilbert]

Picture this:

You're nine years old and I tell you about this cool "game boy" box that 
lets you talk with other kids that have a similar box, except that for 
some reason the box only transmits the Klingon language ... which you 
have to learn to speak first.  For technical reasons, you have to speak 
MUCH more slowly than normal and your friends have to be within a 
certain range for you to even be heard.  You can only use the box in 
private for fear of being considered totally weird by "normal" kids, and 
to upgrade to a (larger and considerably more expensive) version of the 
box that allows you to speak over longer distances you have to get a 
license.

Yeah, right ...

Dave   AB7E




On 5/24/2013 9:41 PM, Charles Harpole wrote:
> Ask 4th grade teachers.  They will tell u have to get 'em at abt 9 yrs of
> age now days.  The appeal has to be their basic wants/needs which are
> -Strong desire to join an exclusive group
> -have a secret language or code for the group
> -Strong desire to feel grown up and in charge of self with personal power.
> (Why are all those super heros so favored?)
>
> This fits ham radio exactly.
> Exclusive group... that certainly is ham radio and hams welcome all ages.
> Secret language... oh do we have a secret language or even two, QSL?  or
> --.-  ...   .-..
> A kid can talk to anyone as an equal from Nobel winners to his buddy down
> the road.
> Who could be more "in control" than the kid AT THE CONTROLS of a radio?
> Eleven is too late.  If ARRL could think younger than their 60 yrs, they
> would have gotten sponsors to build a GAME HAM BOY and have local clubs
> hand them out.
>
> No kid wants to sit too long with and oldster... give him a GAME HAM BOY to
> learn the secret language ... and Hey Martti and others in cell phones....
> PUT CW ON THE MSG FUNCTION... faster than thumbs.
>
> But, a group of gray hairs bitching abt no one to work is both true and not
> near the way to reach youngsters.
>
> Talk to elementary grade teachers.
>
> 73, Charly
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