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By Stan Horzepa,
WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
June 1, 2002
This week, we surf to a Web site that encourages teenagers to become Amateur Radio operators, also known as "teen hams."
Youth Tech's Amateur Radio Area is a place where teenagers interested in ham radio can go to learn more. |
Amateur Radio needs young hams. The future of ham radio depends on our ability to cultivate new hams from the younger members of our society. This is the reason behind the Web site known as the Youth Tech's Amateur Radio Area.
The Youth Tech Web site is intended as a place where teens can hang out, meet other teens, get computer help and obtain other technical information, eg, information about Amateur Radio.
Michael Virgilio, KG4JNA, Chris Riedl, N9WIV, and Rick Cabral, W1RJC, put the Youth Tech's Amateur Radio Area together. All are hams who are active in various aspects of the hobby and they felt that it would be great to bring their knowledge, and in the future, the knowledge of other hams together in order to get more youths involved early on in Amateur Radio.
When you access the site, you find its menu presented to you in the LCD front panel of a dual band FM transceiver. The menu provides links to an introduction to ham radio, licensing information, a history of ham radio, and information about the voice and digital modes, CW and traffic handling. The digital mode link has additional links to information about plain vanilla packet radio, TCP/IP over packet, APRS, and PSK31.
The Amateur Radio Area is still young, but the trio who built the site has plans to keep adding content in areas of contesting, ARES/RACES/Skywarn, public service events, and more. In the future, they may accept stories from hams who want to share an interesting ham radio experience such as that rare DX or satellite contact or perhaps a Field Day story.
If you know a teenager that has any interest in ham radio, you will not go wrong by sending him or her to this Web site.
Until next time, keep on surfin'
Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, of downtown Wolcott, Connecticut, is an ARRL Life Member and an incessant contributor to QST and QEX (596 pieces in 25 years), not to mention the author of five ARRL books, contributor to a bevy of other ARRL titles, and the new editor of Packet Status Register, the quarterly newsletter of Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR). First licensed in 1969 as WN1LOU, he upgraded to WA1LOU in 1971. Stan began using computers with Amateur Radio in 1978 when he bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I computer and wrote BASIC programs to dupe contests and calculate antenna bearings. A virtual beach boy, Stan has been surfing the radio dials as long as he can remember. Instead of surfing all over Manhattan and down Doheny way, however, he now surfs the Internet searching for that perfect page. To contact Stan, send e-mail to wa1lou@arrl.net.
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