Hams Who Pass Their Tech Exam Get News Story and Pix in Paper.

[N2NH]

And online too. From the Brownwood Bulletin in Texas:

Don Fox (l) and Don Horton (r) sat for and passed the Technician Class Amateur Radio License Exam on Saturday, August 11, at the test session at the Red Cross building in Brownwood. They will be allowed to operate transceivers on the amateur radio bands once they receive their callsigns from the Federal Communications Commission.

And yes, their pictures made the paper too.

Something to think about when the hobby seems irrelevant.

New Hams! Wish they did this here too.

[kds]

This is a good idea. Some newspapers will publish anything you send them. The very first newspaper I worked at was a county-wide weekly and we would literally post anything. And by anything I mean we even re-published the local nursing home's newsletters in the newspaper.

If I lived in a city with a small newspaper, I would definitely be sending them pictures and releases from VE sessions.

[NQ6U]

Hell, if they get their pictures in the paper for just for getting a Technician license, imagine what happens when a local ham upgrades to Extra class.

[K7SGJ]

Hell, if they get their pictures in the paper for just for getting a Technician license, imagine what happens when a local ham upgrades to Extra class.

Yeah, if they can pass the code part.

Oh......wait.........never mind.

[N2NH]

Hell, if they get their pictures in the paper for just for getting a Technician license, imagine what happens when a local ham upgrades to Extra class.

Hookers jumping out of a cake

[kb2vxa]

I ham, therefore I am... a ham. Hold the green eggs, I'm a ham I am I am.

[N7YA]

Hell, if they get their pictures in the paper for just for getting a Technician license, imagine what happens when a local ham upgrades to Extra class.

They become mayor!

[ki4itv]

Get off my courthouse lawn!

[n2ize]

No thanks. I don;t want my pix in the paper. The fewer people that know I have a ham license the better. When people ask me if I operate ham radio I deny it.

[kds]

No thanks. I don;t want my pix in the paper. The fewer people that know I have a ham license the better. When people ask me if I operate ham radio I deny it.

I can understand that. I don't usually outright admit it. If they ask me why I have radios and antennas, I'll tell them. Over the past year I have gotten over not admitting to it. Not sure why I can't be totally forthright about it, perhaps it's because I'm a good-looking young guy and the public's impression/stereotype says it should be the opposite.