Update: Reprinted with permission in Radio ZS Vol. 73, No. 4 2020, the journal of the South African Radio Society. Amateur radio has a demographic problem. In the U.S., there is a clear belief that members of the hobby are old. And getting older. What that means in actual age distribution just isn’t known. Unfortunately, […]
Category: Amateur Radio Clubs
Plant the Seed! Sow the Future
There is much rhetoric in amateur radio about getting more people into the hobby. Especially young people. The ARRL has a Teachers Institute which reflects the conventional “train-the-trainer” model of getting K-12 school teachers (mostly) into ham radio in order to expose their students to the fun and learning. The challenge of this is that […]
Smoke & Solder Host to Kick-Off Banner Year of CMSARA Speakers
January 11, 2020. (Brandon, MS): For Immediate Release Information Contact: Frank Howell K4FMH k4fmh@arrl.net A fan favorite from the internationally known video podcast, Ham Nation, kicks off the 2020 programs for the Central Mississippi Amateur Radio Club. “We are delighted to have George Thomas W5JDX, star of the Smoke & Solder segment on Ham Nation […]
Where Are the Hams? Right About Here…
Since about 1983, I’ve been involved in computer mapping of data in one way or another. It’s called GIS (Geographic Information Systems) officially. But two things made it popular to the masses. One was when President Clinton turned off the intentional error insertion on the government GPS satellites. This made the inexpensive Walmart-style personal GPS […]