[RTTY] Re: Sad Comment on Operator Age

[Sid Ashen-Brenner]

         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