Bill Horne wrote:
On 7/20/2014 1:30 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 12:13:18 EDT, Foxs
wrote:
What caused them to lose interest?

Beginners were a different problem. They would usually join at age 14
or so, and become very active, enthusiastic, and interested in radio.
I mentored several of these new hams. Eventually, they discovered
girls, sports, cars, or something else, and were gone as fast as they
had arrived. The limiting factor seemed to be how well ham radio
might compete against girls, sports, and cars. I don't have a
solution for that problem.

Once young men get a whiff of perfume and gasoline, they're gone.

73,


Don't forget beer! I was studying for the UK licence when I was 14 or so
and quickly lost interest when I discovered lasses and booze. Much more
interesting for the teenage boy, sadly, than radio theory and electronics,
especially when beer and girls were combined at house parties...

Still, I came back to radio eventually, 18 years later!

--
Stephen Thomas Cole // Sent from my iPhone