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Not necessarily, Brian, but studying for an amateur ticket gets kids fired up about learning. I can certainly see Jim's point about kids becoming interested in geography, the sciences and math. It didn't work toward interesting me in geometry though. I was caught reading QST hidden within my open geometry book. Should have been a copy of Playboy..... ;-) For the first few weeks of my interest, my dad actively discouraged me with talk of amateur radio being a passing fad for me. He had visions of mounds of equipment gathering dust in a closet. My mother encouraged me and was able to convince my father that some of the meager family income should be spent on a transmitter for me if I earned the money for the receiver from my paper route. My dad had and has no technical abilities whatever. My mother was deathly afraid of electricity and wouldn't even clean my ham shack. She just knew that lightning was going to enter the house via my antennas. Reminds me of the story about some little old lady sueing the trolley company because they caused a lightning bolt to run thru her bedroom late at night. What probably happened was the trolley pole comming off the wire causing an arc to flash. She must have went nuts during a real thunderstorm.... We once had lightning take out a tall tree in the back yard late one night. Wooden shrapnel all over the back yard; good thing nobody was outside when that happened. SOme of the light bulbs that were on blew out. This was back in the early 60's, before line operated solid state equipment was at all common. The tube stuff (all of which was off) didn't mind. |
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