Went to the barber shop this morning. Wide assortment of hunting, fishing, and gun magazines in the rack, along with a few copies of “Scouting” and “Boys Life.”
Picked those two and sat down for a leisurely read. Hadn’t seen one in sixty years. A real treat. Proceeded to peruse every page of both periodicals. Enjoyed it immensely. And then I didn’t. Flipped through the pages a second time just to be sure. Not one sentence about amateur radio. Not one ad, not one picture, not one story. Peewee Harris was still there. Had a full page. Scouts who saved lives were still there. Covered two pages. Lots of ink about backpacking, crime safety, tenting, geocaching, campouts, evironmentalism, relationship building, dog care and other worthy endeavors. Zero ads for radios, signalling, SWLing, kit-building, satellite tracking, Morse Code, or electronic communications of any kind. At the very minimum, I would have thought the $1000 I give the League every year might be capable of placing an ARRL logo and web address in those two youth journals ... for the mildly curious ... but nothing. I got a decent haircut, though. 73, Kent K9ZTV > On Dec 16, 2019, at 1:54 PM, <jlangd...@austin.rr.com> > <jlangd...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > > A few quick thoughts on this subject. > > Space exploration, colonization, and physics are the best "hooks" I see to > fish for the young people that are best prospects as future hams. > > Amateur radio is the best way to "touch" the world beyond the earth and to > get a "hands on" understanding of solar physics, electronic equipment, > electromagnetic fields, solar weather, and the harsh environments that are > Intersolar and interstellar space. > > Early involvement should come with hands on experiments, internships, summer > jobs, resume builders for college applications, and university work/study > programs in the communications, computer technology and defense industries. > > A sequenced set of building block project kits (Elecraft style would be > ideal) that introduce basic principles and result in a receiver, a > transmitter, and an antenna could provide a gateway, and present hams should > underwrite making these available at a low cost and with available "Elmers" > to help. This equipment could be used for radio astronomy, communications, > physics experiments, meteorology, and contesting. Contesting should be > portrayed as glamorous "yacht racing in space" and much cooler than on the > ocean. > > I believe we are at a second "Sputnik" point in the quest for the high > ground, and this is the time to grow more modern technologists, explorers, > and entrepreneurs and fewer snowflake philosophers and low information > consumers! > > What do you think? > > 73 John N5CQ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k9...@socket.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
