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What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? (www.onallbands.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Agreed, but OP is asking how you get people (ie it's not ok if it's not for you // or // we want people more aware of this) -- for someone approaching a new hobby you usually do need something lower cost because people don't know if they're into it. The counterpoint would be rich people I suppose who can go all in before they know they like something.

But that's good to know there are more approachable things to learn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I guess that's fair. My "it's ok if it's not for you" was more of a specific platitude for him because we'd already discussed some of the options available, and he's already put some effort in and decided it wasn't for him 🤷‍♂️

I agree we need to entice more people, I don't have a good answer as to how. If someone looks into it, and makes an informed decision, then I'm not going to twist their arm.

One thing I've tried with my friends kids is to take them out and do POTA in the woods, let them run a pileup. They really seem to enjoy it, enough to stay studying, but not enough to follow through. What can you do? 🤷‍♂️