Jerry, One way to interest a son in radio and electronics expose him to others of his age that are interested and playing with it. Possibly a call to a local scout master to see if he has any charges that have a similar interest.
Sometimes it takes a few years. I exposed my secretary’s sons to electronics and SWLing when they were teenagers and 30 years later when they had their families and jobs stabilized they rediscovered ham radio and became licensed. The best thing you are doing is something together with radio. My father was interested but never became licensed, BUT he took me to other hams homes and they showed me what they had and how it worked. And our family doctor was a ham and took me under tow. I became a family doctor AND a ham….. and Dad bought two Philmore radio kits and a one tube battery operated kit that I myself built. A neighborhood kid was a ham and another ham lived across the street. As I got older we made part 15 one transistor transmitters and sent CW around the neighborhood. It never stopped after that. Even in college and Med school there was always someone that had a ham rig in a closet somewhere and I borrowed it and got on the air. On the air since 1960. Dave K8WPE David J. Wilcox’s iPad > On Sep 16, 2023, at 2:25 PM, jerry <je...@tr2.com> wrote: > > On 2023-09-15 17:31, Wayne Burdick wrote: >> I was 8 years old. > > *** I've been trying to interest my 9 year old in electronics & radio. Am > leveraging his love for making things. Which > mostly is alas focused on Legos. > > When the COVID hit, I immediately got on Amazon and ordered the biggest, > most elaborate "snap circuits" kit. It was sort > of a bust. He did a few of them and lost interest. The trouble with snap > circuits is that the elaborate ones - the ones that > do interesting things - depend on ICs that they have packaged up. Black > boxes that hide all the fun. Also, for some strange > reason, Snap Circuits doesn't use schematics in their workbooks. > > I like the old Radio Shack multi-project kits better, and I got him the > last-biggest one that they made. Actual > schematics. > > I had him build a Velleman kit that I had laying around. He was scared of > the soldering iron. I said "just don't touch > the metal part" :). > > - Jerry, KF6VB > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to djwilco...@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
