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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:31:42 GMT, kc5cqa wrote:
All (90%) of the hams I know are pretty old, you go to a ham fest , convention, and there are very few young people. Consider that the typical three-day-weekend hamfest/convention costs about $300 excluding transportation if one is not lucky enough to live in the immediate area. Add to that transportation (for me usually about $150 when I go to Pacificon, quite a bit less when I go to Seapac) and it gets to be "real money". OK, so I'm 66 years old and have been a ham for 52 years. When I started out as a hugh school student, all the hams I knew were my age (high school and college friends) and none of us could afford going to a ham convention. Some of us would go to the Institute of Radio Engineers convention exhibit in New York (local to us) on the last day to see if we could scarf up samples of components (capacitors, resistors, tube sockets, etc) which the exhibitors would give to young hams just as the exhibit was closing. Those days are gone (sob). Our local ham club - the largest in the state - has quite a number of young hams as members and we encourage programs to interest young people in becoming active in ham radio. Some of our regular 2-m net weekly checkins are folks less than 16 years old. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Club |
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