Kent, you didn't find the "correct" issue of Scouting, as JOTA is
advertised every year as is K2BSA at the National Jamboree every four
years. See: https://www.scouting.org/jota/
73, steve WB3LGC
On 12/16/19 4:20 PM, K9ZTV wrote:
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
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