"Dee Flint" ) writes:
This year I decided to try something a little different. Early this week, I
sent an email to the people in my office briefly describing Field Day and
how one of the things we do is send messages. I then told them that they
could help us with our message sending practice by giving me messages to
send to friends and family. Well I am very pleased to report that I have 13
messages to send from non-hams to other non-hams. At least a few people
will be exposed to amateur radio to a small degree.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

For a few years, one of the local university clubs would operate from
downtown. They'd setup outside the downtown building the club is
normally at, and just use a long piece of coax to the antennas on
the roof if I remember properly.

Perhaps not as much fun as setting up in the country, but it had the
advantage that any passerby could see what was going on, rather than
forcing people to go out of their way to see what was going on.

The former reaches new people, the latter only reaches those who
already know.

Michael VE2BVW