[GreenKeys] New ham

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Gil Smith wrote:

> My 14-yo son Alec went for his test today.  He was very happy to have 
> passed his tech.  Me too.  We have been studying for a while.

Congratulations!

> Now we need to find a radio-related project for science fair.  Any 
> ideas?  Was thinking maybe of something interesting with meteor burst or 
> satellite perhaps, but it is tricky to shoehorn it into the 
> dependent/independent variable and hypothesis model that is needed.

Could you elaborate a bit further on that?  I guess you should aim for 
getting the public interested in amateur radio, by showing what can be 
done with simple equipment (I'm guessing that moon-bounce is out of the 
question) and to differentiate it from CB.

-- Dave vk2kfu