Re: [Elecraft] Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids
While getting somethings on my shopping list at Wired Communications yesterday, I found a $5.00 40m transmitter kit. It is a through-hole kit with a pair of transistors and a crystal on 7023. The card on the box indicated it runs 150 mW, reminding me of a similar transmitter I built with two transistors for 80m. This kit with similarly inexpensive receiver could fill the bill as Wayne describes it. Yes, kids, with the right Elmers, get a kick out of this kind of thing. No, I'm not writing about my experiences in the 1960's, but those with Scouts and other kids in the last ten years. I watched Eric spend a lot of time yesterday demonstrating the K4 to what looked to me to be a 13-year-old who is already licensed, probably thanks to his dad who also has a ticket. The typical grumpy old ham who operates 75m each morning and evening (let the flames begin) is not the one who will spark enthusiasm in anyone, but especially kids, for ham radio. Heck! They're the same ones who ignore visitors to their own club meetings. We need ideas like Wayne's, but more importantly, enthusiastic, active, engaged hams who are willing to share their time and love of our avocation with others. Most new hams today are middle-aged and come to us via EMCOMM. We need to share the mystery and excitement of HF with them and not belittle them for purchasing their cheap HT’s but help program them and invite them to visit our shacks to work some DX and enter a QSO party. Time for a shower and maybe breakfast before the day begins at Pacificon. It looked busy yesterday and will likely be busier today. Monday, we'll stop by Watsonville to deliver a damaged KPA500 and K3 from my RV trip to and from Dayton earlier this year. Then, I'll get ready for next weekend's CQ WW DX SSB Contest with a friend in Gallup NM. Get active. Get engaged. Get on-the-air! 73, Bill, K8TE -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.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
Re: [Elecraft] Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids
Eric I've watched kids use Morse practice oscillators of the simplest kind (we made a kit for <£3 including the key) and they are absolutely taken by it. I don't think they compare their cell phones with this system at all. We do because we are aware of the technology, but kids see things differently. David G3UNA > On 18 October 2019 at 22:37 EricJ wrote: > > > I wonder if kids today are going to be impressed with a commercial radio > that lets them talk 100' away. Most of them are packing a cellphone with > more power than even NASA envisioned when many of us were that age. > Radio was magic to us. Being able to talk to people in Russia was > unbelievable. These kids communicate worldwide almost every day. I think > they might be impressed with the simplicity of a more homebrew looking > (guts exposed) minimalist rig with an equally simple coded "language". > > Eric KE6US > __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids
I pulled out my HT to show to our Scouts, ages 11-13, and they were fascinated that I could talk all the way to Mount Diablo with it. That is about 50 miles, line of sight, to the W6CX repeater on the summit. They also thought the phonetic alphabet was really cool, like a secret code. Tomorrow is Jamboree on the Air, so we’ll see a lot of young people get on the radio. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood Radio Scouting Chair, Pacific Skyline Council http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterunderwood/ > On Oct 18, 2019, at 2:37 PM, EricJ wrote: > > I wonder if kids today are going to be impressed with a commercial radio that > lets them talk 100' away. Most of them are packing a cellphone with more > power than even NASA envisioned when many of us were that age. Radio was > magic to us. Being able to talk to people in Russia was unbelievable. These > kids communicate worldwide almost every day. I think they might be impressed > with the simplicity of a more homebrew looking (guts exposed) minimalist rig > with an equally simple coded "language". > > Eric KE6US > > > On 10/18/2019 2:08 PM, Dr Stephen E Dubin via Elecraft wrote: >> I have seen advertisements for FRS walkie talkies with Morse code. It may be >> done using the PTT button, but I'm pretty sure there is a tone. Price was >> about 12.95 per pair. Just a thought. >> >> 73 De W3UEC (Steve Dubin) >> __ >> 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 eric.c...@gmail.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 wun...@wunderwood.org __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids
I wonder if kids today are going to be impressed with a commercial radio that lets them talk 100' away. Most of them are packing a cellphone with more power than even NASA envisioned when many of us were that age. Radio was magic to us. Being able to talk to people in Russia was unbelievable. These kids communicate worldwide almost every day. I think they might be impressed with the simplicity of a more homebrew looking (guts exposed) minimalist rig with an equally simple coded "language". Eric KE6US On 10/18/2019 2:08 PM, Dr Stephen E Dubin via Elecraft wrote: I have seen advertisements for FRS walkie talkies with Morse code. It may be done using the PTT button, but I'm pretty sure there is a tone. Price was about 12.95 per pair. Just a thought. 73 De W3UEC (Steve Dubin) __ 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 eric.c...@gmail.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
[Elecraft] Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids
I have seen advertisements for FRS walkie talkies with Morse code. It may be done using the PTT button, but I'm pretty sure there is a tone. Price was about 12.95 per pair. Just a thought. 73 De W3UEC (Steve Dubin) __ 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
