Comments on: Amateur Radio: One of Life’s Best-Kept Secrets? http://kb6nu.com/amateur-radio-one-of-lifes-best-kept-secrets/ My personal adventures in amateur radio Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:56:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dan KB6NU http://kb6nu.com/amateur-radio-one-of-lifes-best-kept-secrets/#comment-120248 Dan KB6NU Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:43:05 +0000 http://kb6nu.com/revealing-a-secret/#comment-120248 Hi, Kris. Thanks for your comments. What I do is always bring a Morse Code practice oscillator and QSL cards. The kids seem to love code, and the QSL cards get them interested in the worldwide nature of amateur radio. I also like to tell them about how they can build stuff. The code practice oscillator that I bring is the no solder code practice oscillator (http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/10/30/1/), and it's plain to see how to build it. These seem to strike a chord, but I'd love to get more ideas from parents about what works with their kids. Hi, Kris. Thanks for your comments. What I do is always bring a Morse Code practice oscillator and QSL cards. The kids seem to love code, and the QSL cards get them interested in the worldwide nature of amateur radio.

I also like to tell them about how they can build stuff. The code practice oscillator that I bring is the no solder code practice oscillator (http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2003/10/30/1/), and it’s plain to see how to build it.

These seem to strike a chord, but I’d love to get more ideas from parents about what works with their kids.

]]> By: Kris KF4ZOH http://kb6nu.com/amateur-radio-one-of-lifes-best-kept-secrets/#comment-120233 Kris KF4ZOH Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:01:39 +0000 http://kb6nu.com/revealing-a-secret/#comment-120233 Hi Dan! I just wanted to say I have been reading your blogs on getting kids into Ham Radio and I cant agree with you more! I really think that todays youth could really benefit by being introduced to this hobby! I am just getting back to it myself after a long time. Life sort of prevented my doing much with my license for awhile but my son is about to turn 10 and I am doing all I can to get him hooked! I have just found a club in our area and I am going to be doing some refresher studying as well as studying to get my General class license. Maybe by the start of the school year I can have some ideas on how to present ham radio to the kids at my sons school. The earlier the better! Keep the blogs comin! 73 KF4ZOH Hi Dan! I just wanted to say I have been reading your blogs on getting kids into Ham Radio and I cant agree with you more! I really think that todays youth could really benefit by being introduced to this hobby! I am just getting back to it myself after a long time. Life sort of prevented my doing much with my license for awhile but my son is about to turn 10 and I am doing all I can to get him hooked! I have just found a club in our area and I am going to be doing some refresher studying as well as studying to get my General class license. Maybe by the start of the school year I can have some ideas on how to present ham radio to the kids at my sons school. The earlier the better! Keep the blogs comin!

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