[Kids] Kids Day on the air!

[WB3LGC at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/1/2005 6:58:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
w6ky at sbcglobal.net writes:

Best  check the rules...10,15,20 and 2 meter repeater freqs (with 
permission)  are
the bands..Will look for you... Still trying to figure out my favorite  



In the past there has been activity on 40m, too...  The object is to  get the 
kids on the air, I don't think the rules really care what  band.  I would 
like to see 40m added as one in the list as a place to  look.  I was looking 
forward to trying AO-51 for kids day, but the AMSAT  note a few days ago, the BBS 
was turned on for the Asia effort and the FM  repeater was turned off as 
emergency communications are more important.
 
I plan on being on from Delaware.  I will start by checking 15m and  20m.  In 
the past I haven't had much luck (with a G5RV antenna) except on  40m. We 
will also monitor 2m (146.73 in Wilmington).  On VHF, look for #2  son, KB3LUF 
(maybe this will help push #1 son... who would rather play game boy  then study 
test questions).  On HF, look for WB3LGC.  We may try 6m's  too.  Robert is 14 
and Andrew is 12 - give them a call.  Last year we  tried to operate kids day 
in the RTTY Round-up.  The kids liked pushing  buttons, it would be nice to 
add psk as a kids day mode.  Kids relate to  computers.  btw, we won the 
section as a multi-op (+loggers) with low power  as no one else entered from 
Delaware.  Robert helped log for an hour or  so.  It's best not to have Kids Day the 
same weekend as a major  contest.
 
73, Steve