My God. Do you know what this means? - Doc. Brown (Back to the Future)

As you may not know, I'm a HAM radio operator.

Sunday is the day that my HAM radio club meets.

On Sunday, it was brought up to place an ARRL Technician (Element 1) study guide in our local library.  With this study guide, we wanted to include a stamp/label/etc. for our club

I contacted the library and not only would they accept the book but:

• They wanted us to do a public workshop on Amateur Radio.
• Provide various aged equipment for a display.
• Stuff as old as we could that worked or didn't.
• Possibly stuff between then and now.
• For me, I'd also include the currently low priced and VERY usable, BaoFeng radios.
• Here's a link to the one I bought on Amazon.

With this display and workshop, I want to accomplish the following:

• Provide information that we exist!
• We're just  not a bunch of old people!
• You don't need a lot of ca$h to get started.
• You don't need to have huge antennas to communicate.
• Many of the NEW things you can do with a HAM radio license (at least since I got my license 20+ years ago):
• Digital communications
• Internet/computer communications through the airwaves.
• Interact with the International Space Station.
• Volunteering in our community.
• Roles we currently play in the community:
• We provide communications for various functions (bike/triathlon/marathon/parades) where their cell phone and walkie-talkies won't work!
• Work with local police, ambulance, and fire teams during an emergency.
• You don't need to be an electrician, nerd or geek to have a license.

There are just SO many things that we can provide and help with.

It is a bit of a funky/different hobby to get into.

If you can join up with a club to participate with various activities involved with the hobby, it is more exciting that just getting a license and using it to "chat"...