[Lowfer] LEARNING THE CODE

[lowfer@mailman.qth.net]

What ever happened to those "novice kids in the neighborhood"? I mean the

neighborhood kids having Amateur Radio interests in the year 2003? Anyone

have any figures (or guesses) on the the percapita reduction in Ham Radio

tickets in that age group since the 50s? 

and when they do get licensed they run right to the FM group\
I found it interesting that a local that wants to get the local club
interested in tech projects.. referred a nuby, that lives near him to a
commercial FM antenna
even though the recent QST projects cost pennies and most likely
work better than the 80 buck one. " Nah dont build one "  said the elmer

Probably the best "will work " projects are antenna ones and a good way 
to unlock the " I built it and it works WOW " 


I built one of the copper 144 antennas ( Horiz Omni ) with the thought of
SSB mobile. 
took it to a club meeting to Uhh show off ,,Several of the YLs 
got  fired up and repo'd it as well as copper Js. Looks like the YLs may
be the tech future
in the club    HAR

the Copper 144 loop per the Scloop antenna does work well and without
tweaking it ,,and my own
workarounds it matched to a 1.2 to 1

Bob

Really off topic

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