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In article , Dave Heil
writes: Brian Kelly wrote: (N2EY) wrote in message .com... I think you're over-preaching to the choir again here James. 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. Her folks shepherded her into ham radio beacause ham radio is a great way for kids to learn geography?? 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. I got caught reading a text on electricity. Book was open to the page about polyphase induction motors, and I had to explain the meaning of a rotating magnetic field and a squirrel cage rotor to the teacher. In 5th grade. I never got any help in the ham radio area from my folks. So I was delayed a few years in getting started. 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. 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. Both parents saw value in amateur radio as a wholesome activity, one which would nurture an interest in science and possibly lead to a career in electronics. 'zactly. Frankly, it was kinda surreal reading Larry's diatribe about that family. We've been subject to years of Dr.-Laura-points-of-light-republican-cloth-coat-family- values lectures, and then a family actually does ham radio together and the kid gets no credit. Bleah. I know Janie. Her father was Jesse Bieberman W3KT who is still a legend. Honer Roll top-ender for decades, phone and cw dx contester, 25wpm with a straight key for 48 straight. Vice Director of the Atlantic Division for decades and one of the most powerful voices in Newington in those days. Ran the W3 buro single-handed also for decades. ...and ran the W3KT outgoing QSL forwarding service for a number of years. Yup, great guy, original 1x2 holder, the works. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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