"John Smith I" wrote in message
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KH6HZ wrote:
"John Smith I" wrote:

Amateur Radio is about to undergo a face lift and a painful rebirth into
the new millennium ... These are truly exciting times to live in.

That's what people said when the FCC did the 2000 restructuring.

Guess what? No effect.

11k amateurs added between '00 and April '03. Since April '03, ARS has
lost 32k amateurs.
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Like I say, because of past policy and the "damn the bands but save CW!"
crowd, it may be too late to save amateur radio ...

However, one thing is for REAL sure, hams will continue dieing off like
flies--whether we can attract newbies to swell past numbers is the
question of the hour.

One bright light in all this, some of my students will now go for their
license. All colleges now need a program to make amateur radio known to
their students, high schools are not too young to start with ...

Regards,
JS

Don't slap the old guys too hard. They are the only ones with time
available to go into the schools and recruit the young. The rest of us have
to earn a living. Many of us work days and simply cannot go into the
schools. The ones who work nights have to sleep in the day. So it will be
counterproductive to alienate the older guys and gals. If you want programs
in the schools, it would behoove you to start recruiting the older amateurs
to do it.

Dee, N8UZE