[South Florida DX Association] Tell Your Ham Radio Stories

[Bill]

Guess what Member is on the front page of this site?


Tell Your Ham Radio Stories on HamRadioStoryProject.Com

By Dan Romanchik, KB6NU

For a long time, I’ve had the idea to set up a website to capture ham radio stories. Well, I’ve finally done it. The Ham Radio Story Project (http://www.hamradiostoryproject.com) is now online!

This website was inspired by the Story Corps (http://storycorps.org/), which was itself inspired by NPR’s National Story Project (http://www.npr.org/programs/watc/features/1999/991002.storyproject.html). The tagline for the site is "capturing the human spirit of amateur radio," and my motivation for setting up the sit is to capture personal stories of how amateur radio has touched lives, either the lives of amateur radio operators themselves, or of the people that we serve.

The site has only been online a month, and I already have several good stories. I reposted my story about checking the QSLs of a county hunter, and there are also stories about an international friendship that survived WW II and a story about how an Elmer touched the life of his student. These are exactly the type of stories I want to collect.

If you have a great story about ham radio, I want to hear about it and to publish it on HamRadioStoryProject.Com. If you want to tell the story yourself, let me know, and I’ll set up an account for you on the site. If you would like some help, let me know, and I’ll contact you and either write the story myself, or find someone else to help you.

I don’t want to lose another great story because there isn’t a place to tell it. HamRadioStoryProject.Com is the place to tell it.

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When he's not setting up yet another ham radio website, you'll find KB6NU teaching classes; working on WA2HOM, the ham radio station at Ann Arbor's Hands-On Museum (www.wa2hom.org), or operating CW on the HF bands. You'll find his blog at www.kb6nu.com, or you can e-mail him at cwgeek at kb6nu.com.