https://youtu.be/8x6x_6mDVlQ “Amateur Radio - A 21st Century Hobby” produced by the RSGB
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 17, 2019, at 09:40, Kevin McQuiggin (SFU) <mcqui...@sfu.ca> wrote: > > 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 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
