Tag: amateur radio

It’s Happening! Millennials in Amateur Radio!

http://www.newschannel6now.com/story/37520668/wf-amateur-radio-society-looks-to-add-millennial

I can’t help but hope my wildly debated article is starting to make its motions through the amateur radio community. Conceitedness aside, it’s really awesome to see a club make a very public stride into lowering the age of their radio club.

Is your radio club a bit gray on top? Consider forming a youth interests committee, and marketing your club to younger people (and don’t forget their parents!) by hosting easy and free activities throughout the year, creating scholarship funds, giving presentations for schools and libraries, publishing your field day site and GOTA (and other on-the-air activity) information in highly public areas and social media outlets.

 

An Example of the Broadness of Amateur Radio

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375474

Hackernews (news.ycombinator.com) is a very simple link aggregator and forum (similar to reddit) that focuses on technology, cyber-security, tech companies, software development, venture capitalism and startups, and the like.

It’s always a happy day when amateur radio shows up on hackernews, because its community is smart – engineers, programmers, thinkers, doers, and hams. In other words, there are no cranky OMs there to ruin your day or overenthusiastic technophiles talking your head off.

ARISS came up today, and the thread blew up into a general, lightweight synopsis on a ton of different things that ham radio can offer. Since ham radio is “a thousand hobbies in one,”[1][2][3] I think it’s a great answer to the question “what can you do with ham radio?”

Check it out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375474

Jeeping and Ham Radio

I was asked to give a short presentation on ham radio to a jeep club here in St. Louis. So I did. What I found out is that there is a significant amount of overlap between the two hobbies. See for yourself! Just google Ham Radio Jeep.

My biggest challenge was trying to bring the technical depth of ham radio down to the level of non-technical people who want to use it just because it’s better than CB on their jeeps. Luckily, a general class ham was in the audience and came up at the end of the presentation, and he did a great job of portraying ham radio to meet the needs of the club best. Thank you!

Hopefully we’ll get a few new hams out of this!

Here’s my presentation, and you can also download it here:
PPTX version
PDF Version

And I also recorded it, and will upload to YouTube after it renders. Dunno if it will, because I’m on my third attempt, it takes almost two hours, and I’m risking CPU death since I’m using stock fans.

Here it is, finally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uRx33h31E

Feel free to use this in any way you see fit – share it with friends, upload it to your Facebook group, give a presentation in your club, anything. This is your permission.

Also if your images appear in the presentation without attribution, you just happen to be near the top of google image search when searching Jeep + ham radio. Email sterling@n0ssc.com and I’ll attribute as requested.