[Milsurplus] Getting The Young Interested...WAS "Oldtimer bitching"? Or Timely Warning? You Decide.

[Hubert Miller]

When i lived in the Seattle area, i really enjoyed the monthly meetings of the PSARA – Puget Sound Antique Radio Association.

It was the 3rd Sunday of the month, with the actual meeting starting at 11:00 or noon. Before that, there was swap meet action

in the parking area.  Meeting being held on Sunday never seemed to slow attendance at all. That schedule has worked well for

about 40 years now. Great club, great people, really fun annual “open swap” in August.  ( August is “mostly reliable” weather

in the PacNW. )  They advertise the August meet around the city, so it’s pretty well attended, and largely by ‘civilians’.  The 

January swap in Portland OR was also an “open” one, and advertised, and it did draw people with ( so far ) only a slight 

involvement in collectible electronics.

-Hue Miller 

 

From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Merz via Milsurplus
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 1:02 PM
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Subject: [Milsurplus] Getting The Yound Interested...WAS "Oldtimer bitching"? Or Timely Warning? You Decide.

 

Well, with all 3 local clubs where I am a member or on the board, I have brought up the idea that if you want the middle-age guys to get onboard you have to stop scheduling stuff on Saturdays. Middle age men have kids and youth sports happens on Saturdays. Saturday hamfests are "gray hair" hamfests--because all the other age groups are BUSY living life. 

 

Locally, the idea of Sunday radio activities is a non-starter. The gray haired set want Sundays free for church, church activities and drinking on the porch with their gray-haired relatives. And since all the people running the clubs are seniors, the clubs do everything on Saturdays. It's a self-perpetuating problem.

 

73 de N3RHT Don Merz

 

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