Neither would ham radio if you could talk to hundreds or thousands of
other planets or stars, and couldn't do so any other way. As best I
know, a telescope is still the only way to observe one.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/16/2019 1:44 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
And yet, dabbling in a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum -- with
simple optical telescopes -- never gets old.
Wayne
On Dec 16, 2019, at 12:14 PM, David Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
Since you asked ...
I'm not trying to be negative for the sake of being negative, but I think the
young people interested in those things are going to immediately be drawn to
hardware and software considerably more sophisticated than amateur radio. What
you're expecting is the equivalent of people interested in neurosurgery to want
to learn how to build a microscope. I agree that those will be interesting
fields of study, but I don't think it will work the way you postulated. I'd
bet that a microwave internet link to a base station on the moon would get much
more use than anything related to ham radio.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/16/2019 12:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:
A few quick thoughts on this subject.
Space exploration, colonization, and physics are the best "hooks" I see to
fish for the young people that are best prospects as future hams.
Amateur radio is the best way to "touch" the world beyond the earth and to
get a "hands on" understanding of solar physics, electronic equipment,
electromagnetic fields, solar weather, and the harsh environments that are
Intersolar and interstellar space.
Early involvement should come with hands on experiments, internships, summer
jobs, resume builders for college applications, and university work/study
programs in the communications, computer technology and defense industries.
A sequenced set of building block project kits (Elecraft style would be
ideal) that introduce basic principles and result in a receiver, a
transmitter, and an antenna could provide a gateway, and present hams should
underwrite making these available at a low cost and with available "Elmers"
to help. This equipment could be used for radio astronomy, communications,
physics experiments, meteorology, and contesting. Contesting should be
portrayed as glamorous "yacht racing in space" and much cooler than on the
ocean.
I believe we are at a second "Sputnik" point in the quest for the high
ground, and this is the time to grow more modern technologists, explorers,
and entrepreneurs and fewer snowflake philosophers and low information
consumers!
What do you think?
73 John N5CQ
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