One of the fun things about operating at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum is enjoying the company of other hams and sharing ideas. Two weeks ago, a bunch of us were joking about how to make CW more fun and get more kids into it. Well, someone noted that since CW is a rhythm kind [...]

When I last blogged about this, I simply reported that we’d applied for a grant from the IEEE Foundation. While we don’t expect an answer to our proposal for a while, Jack, WT8N, and I have been brainstorming about how we might use the money. Part of the money we requested were to go towards, [...]

This item is from the November 2007 edition of the ARRL’s Education Services News for Instructors and Teachers….Dan
Teachers and Scout leaders and others who are working with kids and amateur radio have been telling us that it can be difficult to find another school or group of kids to talk to. Scheduled nets are pretty [...]

Last March, we did a good thing by hosting a radio merit badge session. At that event, more than 120 Scouts got their badge. Yesterday, we followed up on that success by participating in the Great Sauk Trail 2007 Boy Scout Camporee. Pat W8LNO, Dave N8SBE, Mark AB8ZI, yours truly, and more than 6,000 Scouts [...]

Who says kids aren’t into ham radio? I think the key to this program’s success is that the teachers were an integral part of the project. Unfortunately, I did not have this kind of cooperation when I tried doing this at a local middle school. I’ve started working on another local school, though……Dan
47 Eighth Graders [...]

I don’t get many phone calls from women who are excited to talk to me, but that’s exactly what happened a couple of weeks ago. What made the phone call even stranger is that she was excited to be talking to an amateur radio operator!
The woman was an elementary school librarian—they call them media specialists [...]

I am joining the QCWA just so that I can take part in this program……Dan
From Amateur Radio Newsline Report #1552, May 11, 2007:
Los Angeles, CA. (May 7, 2007): In a joint statement issued today the leadership of the Quarter Century Wireless Association, Inc. (QCWA) and Amateur Radio Newsline, Inc. (ARNewsline) have announced that QCWA has [...]

Jim, K8ELR, found this on QTH.Com:
ANNOUNCE - 80-meter net
I am a 10 year old ham. I am starting an HF net on 80 meters. It will be Sunday nights at 8:00 pm. The frequency will be on 3.960. The net will be called the young hams net. The purpose of the net is to attract [...]

Earlier in the year, Jack, WT8N, my partner in the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum project suggested that we try to get more Scouts interested in ham radio. He looked up the requirements for the radio merit badge, and then we met with the program director, James McLellan, of the local council about holding a radio [...]

Jack, AB8RK, my partner in the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Project, is hot to get the Boy Scouts involved in amateur radio. This seemed a natural extension of the museum project, as they hold they have activities there frequently. Jack’s idea was to have a session at the museum that would guide scouts through the [...]