[PPRAANet] Reaching Youth

[Dan Scott]

Question:  What is the best way to influence our youth to participate 
and become an Amateur Radio Operator?
                 a.   watch Saturday afternoon college football
                 b.   sit in you ham shack making QSOs
                 c.   work with youth at Jamboree-On-The-Air

Question:  What is the best way to influence adults to participate and 
become an Amateur Radio Operator?
                 a.   watch Saturday afternoon college football
                 b.   sit in you ham shack making QSOs
                 c.   work with youth at Jamboree-On-The-Air

OF COURSE, the answer to both these is "c".  By working with the youth 
you are influencing their future in Amateur Radio, but you are also 
influencing the many adult leaders!  Please volunteer, lets put on a 
great demonstration for these scouts and adults.

The 49th Jamboree-On-The-Air is only 7 weeks away (October 21st).  We 
will operating from Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch, near Elbert Colorado.

We do not have any station coordinators yet (Please volunteer!!).  See 
below for a list of stations we think we need.  The Boy Scouts have 2 
GP-Medium tents (somewhere) and we have received permission to use a 
couple different repeater systems.  The only thing lacking are the 
stations and man-power (hi hi).

The last planning meeting went well, notes follow:

Next planning meeting:      September 12th, 6:30 PM
Planning meeting location:  EMC Corp.
                                        6005 North Delmonico Road Suite 250
                                        (This is about 3/4 mile North of 
"Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame")

What we have so far: 
   2 GP-Medium tents
   Repeater access
   EOSS balloon launch with an amateur radio only payload

We need volunteers to coordinate the following:
    2 HF stations
    2 or 3 VHF stations
    Digital (psk-31, RTTY, WINLink,...etc.)
    Satellite (if enough birds justify setting up the station)

We thought it would be really neat to have some demonstration modes 
running as well:
    CW - any cw contests that could be conducted at JOTA?
    SkyWarn Noon Weather Net check-in and report
    APRS - this will also be demonstrated with EOSS
    ATV

Marshall (KC0USF) is working on display board to include:
    HF Propagation
    Computer-to-Radio Interface
    IRLP/EchoLink (overview)
    Amateur Satellite communications

ARES/RACES overview. 
 From the scouts perspective ARES/RACES could be discussed in general 
terms, almost as a single entity.  Would someone step forward and 
facilitate a program dealing with these organizations (including 
SkyWarn)?  Thanks !!!

Because the scouts are very familiar with the Internet, we thought the 
Radio-to-Internet tie-in would spark an interest to many.  Besides the 
station coordinators, we are looking for operators that are comfortable 
using IRLP and/or Echolink and could act as mentors to us that are not 
familiar with these systems.

Please help by volunteering your time and effort with this worth while 
activity/demonstration. 

Thanks and 73,

Dan - KB0PPM