NPARC Kids Page
NPARC is actively encouraging
young people to get involved with ham radio. Ham radio is a fun,
safe, free and unique way to talk with people around the world!
1. Licensing - For more information about getting a ham
radio license, please visit our Become a
Ham page and/or contact our young ham mentor, Barry Cohen
K2JV, at k2jv (at) arrl.net or call him at 908-464-1730.
2. Kids Day
- Kids Day is a twice-a-year
(January and June) on-air event to encourage
any young person
-- licensed or not -- to
get on the air and have fun with Amateur Radio. It is
designed to foster interest in
youngsters to get a license of their own. It is also
intended to give older hams a chance to share their station and
love for Amateur Radio with their children.
For
this Winter 2012 Kid's Day was
held on
January 8, 2012
at the Berkeley Heights
Community Center (Flyer,
Photos).
Last year Kid's Day,
January 2, 2011,
held at the Berkeley Heights Community Center
attracted a crowd of members and visitors.
Kids logged a number of QSO's from around
the US. (Photos,
Flyer)
Write-up of NPARC Jan 2008
Kids Day at ARRL site:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/02/14/102/?nc=1
Kids Day Rules
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/kd-rules.html
General Kids Day 2007 QST Article:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/ead/KidsDay0607.pdf
3.
Kids Net - Students
throughout the metropolitan New York City area are encouraged to
check in to the Kids Net every Sunday
night at 8:00 p.m. on the W2LI repeater (147.255, Tx
+600, tx tone 141.3).
This net is run by kids and for kids. No adults allowed!
☺
4. Summer Day
Camps - Each summer,
members of NPARC headed by Barry Cohen K2JV set up a radio
station at one or more of the local municipal summer day camps
(Berkeley Heights, New Providence). Some of these camps have
featured a talk with an International Space Station astronaut
(see #6 below)!
5. Field Day
- On the fourth full weekend in June, hams around the country
setup radio stations in the field to test their ability to
operate under emergency conditions and without street power
electricity. NPARC participates in this
Field Day by setting up several radio stations in the field
behind the Governor Livingston High School in Berkeley Heights.
Kids are especially welcome.
6. ISS Contact - During the last few years, we
have arranged for kids to talk by ham radio with astronauts
aboard the International Space Station! The kids made up the
questions, asked the questions, operated the radio and
controlled the antenna that had to be pointed at the ISS during
its pass.
2009 (YouTube
video),
Star-Ledger newspaper article
