[TenTec] TenTec Digest, Vol 48, Issue 40

[n4dsp]

Jim,
dropping the code is NOT going to remove the impediment, which you call it, 
that prevents youngsters from pursuing amateur radio. One only has to look 
at the baseball fields, basketball courts, and football fields to understand 
that. Sure you will find some youth playing sports but not like it was in 
our days. Youth of today do not want to exert themselves but want an easy 
fix like putting a cd in a cdrom and playing John Madden Football.
People are in this mode of thinking that if we drop this and do this it will 
attract more of the younger generation is false. Lets face it Ham Radio is 
dying and will likely continue to die and there is not a thing we can do 
about it. It just does not interest the youth of today like it did in our 
days.

john-n4dsp

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JAMES HANLON" <knjhanlon at msn.com>
>  ps:  One unhappy fact about Amateur Radio is that the average age of 
> licensees is much higher today than it was when we old-timers got into the 
> hobby, in my case as a Novice in 1952.  Just go to any swapfest or hamfest 
> and try to find the youngsters - they are very few and far between and 
> well hidden amongst the gray and the balding.  If Amateur Radio is going 
> to continue into the future, it will have to find some way of attracting a 
> new group of technically-oriented young people into it ranks.  Hopefully, 
> dropping the code as a requirement will remove one impediment to that 
> process.
>
>  Jim