NPARC Kids Page
NAPRC 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 bgcohen@verizon.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.
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).
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. One of the stations is called a GOTA -- Get On The Air -- station and is specially designated as a station where any visitor can experience the wonder of making a radio contact. Kids are especially welcome.
6. ISS Contact - In June 2006, students at the Salt Brook School in New Providence NJ got to talk with an astronaut by ham radio. 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. For more about this exciting event, see the ISS Contact page. And in April 2008, the club helped a school in Parsippany make another ISS contact.
7. Scouting - Some of our club members are Boy Scout "Radio" Merit Badge counselors in the Patriots Path Council. Scouts should talk with their Scout leader to see a list of those counselors.
In addition, members of NPARC will be happy to give a ham radio demonstration at any Girl or Boy Scout meeting. Just contact Ralph Milnes KC2RLM at kc2rlm@arrl.net or 973-377-7061.
