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


PSU has one, and puts out a pretty fair number of new Hams. It's a very
good idea.


Back 30 years ago, at Syracuse University, the ham club offered to send
Valentine's Day messages to students with boy or girl friends at other
colleges. This was a big hit, made students a little aware of ham
radio, and also was useful come student government club funding time.
Of course, this was before the Internet was commonly known about, and
all there was was snail mail or very expensive long distance phone
calling.