[Elecraft] Starting out early in Ham Radio?

[Leo Starrenburg PA5LS]

Geert van den Helm SWL NL12955, the 8 year old son of Jos PA7WWO, passed the
5 wpm cw test with flying colors in deceber 2002. When his father was
pounding away the 12 wpm lessons for another group, Geert stuck his head
around the corner of the shack and mentioned: "don't you think I can't
follow you Dad"

I guess the usuall "rules" as to creating interest and encouraging children
apply here: my daughters (12 and 15) can copy and send their own name, but
that's about the limit to their cw interest (at the moment !)

73' Leo.

have a look at http://home.planet.nl/~abraham1/  , the last but one menu
item is about Geert.

> After listening to my 16 month year-old daughter stab out the letter C in
> morse on the toy piano, I wondered at what age I should encourage her to
> explore Ham Radio and morse?
>