[Elecraft] Suggestions for Introducing a 10-year-old to Amateur Radio and Electronics

[Mel Farrer]

I started with a flyer from Summer school that showed how to make a crystal set.  Simple stuff, took a week or so to gather the materials and wire it all up with a wood burning converted soldering iron, hi.  We did it on a bread board that Mom said was too marked up.  Used a telephone hand held receiver, a cold water ground and a wire somewhere in the trees, and WE HAD AUDIO.  We could hear the AM stations quite well.  Then came the Regen receiver out of 1940's Popular Mechanic article.  We had CW.......... Thats all it took for this ten year old in 1948.........I was hooked......
Mel, K6KBE

      From: Alan Geller via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
 To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Suggestions for Introducing a 10-year-old to Amateur Radio and Electronics
   
Here is one more approach:

I took a pine 1X2 and cut it into 3” pieces ; then screwed a couple of Fahnstock clips into the
tops of each one near the ends. I then selected an assortment of 2 node components plus a
pile of 6” cut copper wire pieces.
Whoopee…we could then make stuff…doorbell plus switch, simple diode rcvr, then one with a
single transistor audio amp plus speaker (needs 3 NODE block), morse code key and buzzer
etc etc
Tiny stuff can be intimidating…so the blocks fit his way of playing and we were off and running.
A regen rcvr on a board for 40M can be a jump step and its all fun.

Alan/K6ADG
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