PRESENTER OPINION: Looking after new Hams
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As many of you know, I am a bit of an Amateur Radio podcast fan. Each week I listen to around a dozen as well as hosting & publishing three created by other people, myself. I'm also involved with creating or validating content for a few podcasts and in the meantime small, run by radio amateurs, (legal) short wave AM radio stations as well.
Through all of this, I hear some repeated concerns on several of the podcasts/radio shows. One of these concerns is that new amateurs who have just got their entry-level licence (whether that be Technician, Foundation or Novice depending upon which country they are in), have bought or been given a VHF/UHF Handy Talkie and then get left alone and after a while, as the level of activity on the local repeater is low, get fed up with the hobby and look for another pursuit.
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