wrote:
Dee Flint wrote:
wrote in message
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Len Anderson wrote the following quote:

"I've always had trouble with integrating "youngsters"
in what is a primarily _adult_ skill/technique recreational
activity."

- Len Anderson

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...e=source&hl=en


The integration of youngsters into adult activities is one of the beauties
of ham radio.

Agreed!

This is one of the few opportunities that they have to learn
by direct participation on an equal footing with adults.

And it has always been so, at least in the USA.

This opportunity
has been increasingly rare in modern times. The young normally tend to be
isolated to non-adult activities and the adults are there simply as
supervisors, trainers, or "taxis."

It is truly a wonderful thing to see the youngsters, oldsters, and those
in-between working together on projects.

It's also a wonderful thing to hear people of all ages on the ham
bands,
working each other regardless of age, gender, race, religion, etc.,
without prejudice or classification by same. Morse Code and the
"data modes" are better for this than voice.


73 de Jim, N2EY

Obviously you've never heard of the Boy Scouts of America nor the Merit
Badge program.

Best of luck catching up to the world as it presently exists.