One of the young people in our club -- late 20s or early 30s is
my guess -- said at a meeting that he liked contesting because
in a contest, he does not have to listen to old men describing
their medical problems. He is now a very up and coming contester.
Moral of the story, try to rag chew about fun things when
talking with strangers.
My own observation is that conversation with strangers is an art
form. It can easily be practiced in airport waiting rooms, but
perhaps the best place is the club car on a long distance train.
Skill in it is valuable for a radio rag chewer.
(And I miss rag chewing with PSK31. FT8 just isn't the same.)
Yesterday, my 6 year old grandson was lucky enough to receive a
pair of walkie-talkies. They are AM units on 49.86 MHz. I was
able to receive them with my KX3 and an AT1. He has been using
them quite actively since he opened them.
They also have a morse code chart printed on the radio and a
button to use for sending morse code. My grandson's father
(KI6NVN, but not a CW op) and I described morse code to him, and
I sent some things, including his name, in code. We told him we
didn't expect him to learn code quickly -- he's just in
kindergarten -- but we would let him hear what it sounds like.
Who knows where this moment will lead.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 12/22/19 at 11:37 PM, [email protected] (Don Wilhelm) wrote:
Bring ragchewing back, and I am not talking about the nets on
80 and 40 meters, it is reaching out to someone new and telling
a bit about ourselves and getting the same in return.
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