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And there is no better way to help a child learn than to get them interested in the subject. Geography? Time zones? Math, science, technology? An interest in ham radio helps with all of those. They'd need HF privs for some of that. HF propagation is needed to get your signal to Pottsylvania... Her folks shepherded her into ham radio beacause ham radio is a great way for kids to learn geography?? I don't know what they do in K-12 grades now, but way back when I was a kid, geography was taught in grades 4 thru 7. "What's the capital of South Dakota?" "Where is Red China?" "What voltage do they apply to the electrified barbed wire surrounding the Communist Bloc?" ;-) We learned about evil Godless communism in geography class.... Nothing unusual about that. A huge percentage of all of us kid hams didn't have any particular "parental support" when we became hams. All my folks cared about was that whatever it was that I was doing with a soldering iron in the cellar didn't result in the Henny Carr the town cop dragging me home by the scruff of my neck *again* for commiting some bush-league juvenile atrocity or another. Worked for them and it worked for me. They didn't get paranoid about your messing with dangerous electricity? :-) My parents knew about electricity and had no real fear of it, but my grandmother had no clue at all about electricity. She grew up somewhere near Scranton PA before they had electricity there.... She got 4 wrong on Element 4. How many did you get wrong on yours? 3. Well, 2 on 4A and 1 on 4B. Tell ya what, Larry, I'll fill a box with parts and you can come over and build afunctioning ham rig out of them. No instructions, no elmers, just parts and a book or two. I did it when I was 13. I doubt you could do it, Larry. Virtually all yer kid ham predecessors could cobble rigs together "Back in my day". It was almost the norm then. A lot higher percentage of us designed and rolled our own than was the case "in your day" a decade and a half later. By the time Larry got into ham radio hombrewing no longer made any sense except in oddball cases so I doubt he had any reason to even consider building his own rig. Entry level rigs have been products of the era in which we came into the service. YMMV and it obviously has. Many novice setups were built out of junked tube TV parts and modified AM radio receivers. QST published many articles about such. The designs were such that you could have something that worked without causing a lot of TVI. Designs that were not fussy about adjustments and component selection. Which is what you want in manufacturing, something that can be thrown together and always work. |
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