In fourth grade (1952) a camp counselor had built a voice radio transmitter
that put out a signal on the broadcast band that we could hear all over the
campground. Was it illegal? HELL yes, it put out almost a watt into a
random wire antenna. Could it be heard a couple of miles away? HELL no. It
was a watt into a junk antenna.

That illegal transmitter put this kid into a 50 year career as an
electronics engineer with a lot of stops along the way.

My advice ... build a VOICE transmitter that has a couple of miles range and
let the kids have fun with it.

Licenses, we don't need no steenking licenses...

Jim


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All,

I have a situation, and would like some opinions rather than flames on
how to handle it. My wife teaches at a public school just off the
Easter Arizona Navajo reservation. Lately, a junior school science
teacher is starting up a science club and has asked me to provide for
the amateur radio side of the club and be its control operator.