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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
Eastern 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.

She believes that the kids would be fascinated by the Morse code -
DXing - Construction end of the hobby, even though Morse is no longer a
required test element.

The kids are mostly Navajo and thusly have a very limited technological
background (hence the reason for the club to stir the interest), so I
need something concrete with immediate payoff to keep their interest
hooked while getting them as ready as I can to write their Technician
exam. The nearest VEC is 4 hours away and I'd rather have as few fail
as possible.


The Navajo people have a proud heritage for their WW2 participation in usage
of their language for communication in the Pacific (Japanese could not break
it). See movie - Windtalkers (and a couple of others).

CW may be of interest to some - in that it is also a human translated
code --
that was a foreign to 19th century US citizens -- as Arabic is to many 21st
century Americans today.

You should contact the VEC to see what accommodations they could make -- to
assist you for testing. Good luck with it.

w9gb