It was written: "Trying to get the young interested is good, but it's an expensive hobby"
I disagree with the premise that amateur radio is an expensive hobby. One can
spend an outrageous amount of money on most any hobby, but amateur radio has
never been less expensive in terms of real dollars.
in 1960, I started out with a 50 dollar military surplus receiver, a homebrew
transmitter that required about 25 dollars worth of parts that I could not
scrounge and a dipole antenna fed with 75 ohm twinlead that probably cost 20
dollars. An online inflation calculator says that this was about one thousand
2025 dollars.
I regularly see good, used hybrid and solid state HF transceivers sell in the
$100 to $400 range. I know people who have purchased new, dual band HTs for
under 50 dollars.
My grandkids and their friends spend far more than that on smart phones,
concert tickets, video games, drones, skiing, golf, hunting and fishing.
With the exception of young people who are truly living in poverty, I don't
think lack of money is preventing their entry into amateur radio.
Just my 2 cents worth. (adjusted for inflation, 22 cents in 2025)
Gary, KzeroCX
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