5-year old ham nominated for new editor for Channel 9 news

[Voyager]

5-year-old passes ham radio exam

Maybe they should hire the kid as their new editor. I bet the kid can spell Amateur correctly.

 

[scannermanner1]

Why does the media ALWAYS think ARES and ham radio are the same thing ? sounds cooler maybe

 

[profiledescent]

Why does the media ALWAYS think ARES and ham radio are the same thing ? sounds cooler maybe

What the.........You said "media" and "think" in the same sentence.

 

[chittshrek]

The same reason the media says that we(firefighters) wear oxygen tanks. I would not wear an oxygen tank cause I do not feel like exploding. Now a compressed air tank aka scba yes I will

 

[scannermanner1]

What the.........You said "media" and "think" in the same sentence.

Is that bad?

 

[scannermanner1]

The same reason the media says that we(firefighters) wear oxygen tanks. I would not wear an oxygen tank cause I do not feel like exploding. Now a compressed air tank aka scba yes I will

Kinda funny how they don't understand things like that, but theoretically there the same thing SCBA tanks built to different specs of course

 

[KM5LZ]

5 year old

In the early 80s I was at the Louisville KY. hamfest when a 5 year old passed his General class that would be the old General with 13 words a minute code. Kids are amazing.

 

[KC0KM]

Couple of thoughts on this. One the kid was amazing, and way to go for him, keep it up and he might be one of the youngest Extras. There is a gal in our club, who got her Extra when she was 8 or 9 years old, and can do code at roughly 60 WPM. As for the media, they simpoly do not pay attention. It is like calling a fire engine a fire truck (and vice the versa), to them it is one and the same. Where I work we have [2 meter] business radios (1.98 meter or 515.52 MHz), most of them call it a "CB". I have to tell them that is not and that we have a license for it, adn we have to follow certain rules. How many who are not involved with Amateur Radio, simply think we run "CB's" ? It is all a matter of prespective, and not knowing one thing or another.

 

[Voyager]

It is like calling a fire engine a fire truck (and vice the versa), to them it is one and the same.

Can't blame it all on them. Even the industry can't decide on what a "Tanker" is. In the western states, they have wings. In the eastern states, they don't.