[QCWA] Re: QCWA

[Norm Gertz]

Jim writes:  "  Lets start active mentoring programs and really teach some 
skills to the new generation before the skills die out with us! Let the 
current QCWA members set examples that make the new generation want to be 
like us."

How very well said Jim......my thoughts also.

Interesting to note that in the recent field day activity that a lack of 
qualified phone operators surfaced.  An interesting twist for sure.

73   Norm   K1AA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Mockley" <jmockley at msn.com>
To: "QCWA" <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 1:47 AM
Subject: [QCWA] Re: QCWA


This has been a very interesting string. I would like to suggest some of the 
reasons for the decline in hams and membership have been technological. When 
we were all coming up the ranks, the internet didn't exist. It has become 
the ham radio of the present times. Secondly, When I was learning 
electronics and theory, I was blessed with a number of great mentors. Some 
are now SK's and some are still active. I remember how much I admired them 
and appreciated their influence in my life.

Today, the education of ham radio and for that matter commercial radio has 
been relegated to software based programs available on CD and DVD. Where did 
the hams with expertise slowly excuse themselves from mentoring the new 
folks? maybe that is where we can make a difference.

I would suggest QCWA members need to re-assert their skills and help the new 
hams in their new field of study. The new courses available to these new 
folks do not teach electronic or radio theory and design. As was previously 
mentioned the new hams are learning just enough to pass the tests. Today, 
people don't know how to pick up a soldering iron, instead they have become 
appliance operators.

Lets start active mentoring programs and really teach some skills to the new 
generation before the skills die out with us! Let the current QCWA members 
set examples that make the new generation want to be like us.

73,

Jim Mockley W7JMM
Chapter 168
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