Hi everyone,

On October 18, I am going to teach about amateur radio at a huge (over 1800 acres) Boy Scout camp about an hour west of me called Camp Davy Crockett. Thisis my first time doing this and I'm excited! I'll be going with two other hams from my ham radio club.

I'd love to help them all get their ham radio license and earn their Radio activity badge.

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On October 18, I am going to teach about amateur radio at a huge (over 1800 acres) Boy Scout camp about an hour west of me called Camp Davy Crockett. Thisis my first time doing this and I'm excited! I'll be going with two other
hams from my ham radio club.

I'd love to help them all get their ham radio license and earn their Radio activity badge.

That is pretty cool!

Mike


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On October 18, I am going to teach about amateur radio at a huge (over 1800 a

>s) Boy Scout camp about an hour west of me called Camp Davy Crockett. Thisis
> first time doing this and I'm excited! I'll be going with two other hams fr
>my ham radio club.

I'd love to help them all get their ham radio license and earn their Radio ac

>ity badge.

That's interesting. I would wonder given the multiple ways kids have
to communicate these days, how many would be interested in that.

I'm sure you can do things with a ham radio that you can't do with
other means, so maybe that's a good thing to learn about..

..If you can get their faces out of their phones long enough to
teach them anything.. B)

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Hello, Rob!

Replying to a message of Rob Mccart to SEAN DENNIS:

That's interesting. I would wonder given the multiple ways kids have
to communicate these days, how many would be interested in that.

You'd be surprised. The maker crowd has found out about amateur radio and they love it.

I'm sure you can do things with a ham radio that you can't do with
other means, so maybe that's a good thing to learn about..

For one thing you can easily use your computer to talk on the air and be able to work (talk to) places that you might not be able to otherwise.

..If you can get their faces out of their phones long enough to
teach them anything.. B)

No phones allowed at this event.

I will be bringing one of my radio setups alone with my QSL card (postcards we hams send each other to verify contacts) collection showing a lot of the contacts I've made over the years. I've been a licensed ham since 1997 and am quite proud of it. I also hold the highest class of amateur radio license available in the US also.

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That's interesting. I would wonder given the multiple ways kids have
to communicate these days, how many would be interested in that.

You'd be surprised. The maker crowd has found out about amateur radio and th

>love it.

That's good. I know radios were a lot more common years ago but I
guess there are still a lot of people involved in it and it's
always good to create new users..

I'm sure you can do things with a ham radio that you can't do with
other means, so maybe that's a good thing to learn about..

For one thing you can easily use your computer to talk on the air and be able

> work (talk to) places that you might not be able to otherwise.

I don't know enough about it to comment much. I was thinking about how
at some times when virtually all technology was down there were still
Ham users who could communicate with the rest of the world, which was
great, but if you are using a computer then you should also be able
to talk computer to computer in other ways..

..If you can get their faces out of their phones long enough to
teach them anything.. B)

No phones allowed at this event.

Good plan.. I think that's required to teach kids Anything these days.. B)

Hope this all works out for you...

Rob
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I don't know enough about it to comment much. I was thinking about how
at some times when virtually all technology was down there were still
Ham users who could communicate with the rest of the world, which was
great, but if you are using a computer then you should also be able
to talk computer to computer in other ways..

I am not a HAM but I remeber several years ago when my area had a very
unusual snow+extreme cold weather event. The HAMs in the area were
extremely useful in assisting with emergency efforts. Lots of people were otherwise without power, phones, etc., but they were able to radio things
into authorities.

This would have been sometime between 1993 and 1997 so I think most all of
it was done over the radio without computers. I remember listening to the HAMs, and the emergency services, over my scanner.

No phones allowed at this event.

Good plan.. I think that's required to teach kids Anything these days.. B)

Somewhat OT but a lot of schools are going phone free to prevent kids from using AI in the classroom.

Mike

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Sean,

On October 18, I am going to teach about amateur radio at a
huge (over 1800 acres) Boy Scout camp about an hour west of me
called Camp Davy Crockett. Thisis my first time doing this and
I'm excited! I'll be going with two other hams from my ham
radio club.

Fine business.

I'd love to help them all get their ham radio license and earn
their Radio activity badge.

The University Of Arkansas At Little Rock (UALR), of which I'm an
alumnus with a Bachelor Of Arts in Radio/TV/Film, is having their
annual campus picnic later today, known as "Barbecue At Bailey's".
It's at the Bailey Alumni Center, with a caterered lunch from:

1) Whole Hog Cafe -- barbeque beef, pork, and chicken...served with
spicy or mild sauce...plus potato salad and cole slaw (along with buns
for those wanting sandwiches).

2) Community Bakery -- cookies or brownies for dessert

3) Pepsi -- Pepsi soft drinks or bottled water.

The best part, is that it's free. :)

I'm going to set up a table for the UALR Ham Radio Club, to promote
the club and the hobby. I am their VE Team Leader, and we do testing
4 times a year.

73,

Daryl, N5VLZ

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I am not a HAM but I remeber several years ago when my area had a very

>unusual snow+extreme cold weather event. The HAMs in the area were
>extremely useful in assisting with emergency efforts. Lots of people were
>otherwise without power, phones, etc., but they were able to radio things
>into authorities.

Yes, I've heard similar stories. As you suggested, it was maybe more
common in the past, but it could still be important today in extreme
situation.

No phones allowed at this event.

Good plan.. I think that's required to teach kids Anything these days.. B)

Somewhat OT but a lot of schools are going phone free to prevent kids from

>using AI in the classroom.

There is that.. plus long before AI became an issue, kids were texting
back and forth and such during class.

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Somewhat OT but a lot of schools are going phone free to prevent kids from

>using AI in the classroom.

There is that.. plus long before AI became an issue, kids were texting
back and forth and such during class.

IMHO, that is where a lot of cyberbulling took place, where kids could do
it real-time. :(

Mike


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Somewhat OT but a lot of schools are going phone free to prevent kids from

>using AI in the classroom.

There is that.. plus long before AI became an issue, kids were texting

>> back and forth and such during class.

IMHO, that is where a lot of cyberbulling took place, where kids could do

>it real-time. :(

No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously
one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
in the open.. More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.

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IMHO, that is where a lot of cyberbulling took place, where kids could do

>it real-time. :(

No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously
one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
in the open.. More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.

When I was in school, they didn't want to confront you unless they had at
least one friend with them. When they were alone, they'd move to the other side of the hallway and try not to be seen. ;)

Mike


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Re: Something cool
By: Rob Mccart to MIKE POWELL on Mon Oct 13 2025 08:32 am

No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously
one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
in the open.. More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.

IMO most bullies take refuge in numbers. It is a well understood phenomenom.

Most of the times bullying gets started when an important person in a given group kickstarts it, thus everybody within the group feels as they are given permission to partake.

At that point it is random people within the group doing the bullying because it is the "cool" thing to do, and groups obtain a huge sense of identity by pissing or antagonizing people outside of the group.

I don't think there is much anonymous bullying. Lots of the times when it is anonymous is done so they can reveal later on " It was us fucking with this guy, hahahaha".


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IMHO, that is where a lot of cyberbulling took place, where kids could do

>it real-time. :(

No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously

>> one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
>> in the open.. More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
>> of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.

When I was in school, they didn't want to confront you unless they had at

>least one friend with them. When they were alone, they'd move to the other
>side of the hallway and try not to be seen. ;)

At one point in school there were a couple of bullies picking on me,
probably because I was tall for my age but younger than them and
was a good target due to inexperience..

Geez, thinking back, I was only about 9 and they were a couple
of years older. In my mind I didn't think I was so young..

Anyways, one cold winter day I finally had enough and when the
bully's buddy pushed me one day outside at lunch, I pushed him
back and we got into a fist fight that lasted probably 20 minutes.
Honestly, I think he was going easy on me, and when we finally
gave it up to get back in to class, about 5 minutes after the bell,
he said, Next time you get in a fist fight, take off your gloves..
I guess I was hurting him a lot less than he was hurting me.

I must have looked a mess and the lady teacher decided to just
not get involved because not a word was said about me being late.

On the plus side, neither of them ever picked on me again.
I guess it loses a lot of it's appeal when you fight back..

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No doubt, and I think the worst of that was usually done anonymously

> one way or another. A lot of bullies don't want to confront people out
> in the open.. More so in these days of 'electronics'. I think a lot
> of kids become 'bullies' who would never confront someone in person.

IMO most bullies take refuge in numbers. It is a well understood phenomenom.

Most of the times bullying gets started when an important person in a given g

>p kickstarts it, thus everybody within the group feels as they are given perm
>ion to partake.

Yes, that can happen. My incident happened in younger grades but there
was more of the group thing going on once we got to highschool.
You get these cliques, Sports people or Music people or Math or
Science Geeks or whatever.

I didn't run into problems by then - highschool being ages 14 to 18
or so - and I started right in wearing motorcycle gang type clothes
and saving to by my first motorcycle and rather than being bullied
I actually had a bit of a following.

There was a aown side though.. I was flirting with a girl one
day, a friend of one of the guys who hung with me, and it seemed
to be going well, so I asked her out. She sort of stood there wide
eyed and silent for a minute staring at me, and then she blurted
out, I'm scared to death of you!.. and she ran off..

I thought girls were supposed to like 'Bad Boys' (?).. B)

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On the plus side, neither of them ever picked on me again.
I guess it loses a lot of it's appeal when you fight back..

That, and you may have earned their respect, too. They probably didn't
realize you had it in you.

Mike


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