The RSGB has an excellent ham radio overview video. The target audience is people under about 30. Everyone in the video is under ~25. It presents the hobby in young peoples' terms using their terms and points of reference. It covers public service, HF, V/UHF, contesting, satellites, lnternet connectivity, fox hunting, building stuff. The best video I’ve seen to describe ham radio in modern terms to non- 50 or 60 year olds.
I will try to find the link. 73, Kevin Sent from my iPad > On Dec 17, 2019, at 09:35, KENT TRIMBLE <k9...@socket.net> wrote: > > We might take a page from Cadillac. > > Somewhere in the early 2000s their ads began using models and actors > exclusively in the 20-40 age range. No more gray-haired executives. > > Jack makes good points. > > Why do they call you "weird," by the way? > > 73, > > Kent K9ZTV > > > > >> On 12/16/2019 3:07 PM, kd...@frawg.org wrote: >> Have any of us ever tried to poll younger non-related and non-ham persons in >> a structured way? Probably not ... >> >> Introspectively, what I do see is one generation of an old civic (mostly >> men's) club in a panic because we perceive we are all dying off and there >> will be no one to "carry on". An awfully large group of people look at "us" >> as odd or funny old dudes... >> The media has never helped us much. Ham radio is just a TV prop and usually >> used to poke fun at >> certain attitudes. OTOH the actual high value stuff we occasionally do is >> all too often relegated to 11pm local news as "filler" if it is reported at >> all. Who failed? Not even worth pointing fingers... we did. >> >> Embrace it, have fun with the hobby, chill, let the marketing departments at >> "IKY" and "China-Inc" figure out the sales pitch. We geeks will still be >> here in the future and some will be hams... and we'll line up for the latest >> widgets. Let's move on. >> >> 73 All, >> "Weird Uncle Jack" >> KD4IZ >> Jack Spitznagel >> FM19oo >> >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 mcqui...@sfu.ca ______________________________________________________________ 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
