[Elecraft] Starting out early in Ham Radio?

[Thom LaCosta]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Tony Wells wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> 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?

Let her start learning when she asks about/demonstrates an interest.
Don't do what I did...as a divorced dad I always had too many things to do
when I had my girls over to visit...they weren't my things, but things I
though they would enjoy.  My youngest daughter asked about ham radio.

I was off the air, and kinda soft-peddaled it.  Years later, when she
ended up moving in with me, we had a "heart to heart"...and one of the
things she was most disappointed about was that I hadn't taught her the
morse code and how to get her ham ticket.

Thom

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