Helen vs Ham radio

[XE1/N5AL]

Hi Tom,

A job well done by your daughter Helen! I hope she will follow your footsteps into the ham radio hobby. Kids have a lot of fun on the radio at special event and contest stations. When our club does Field Day, there is always one (and sometimes two) station(s) being operated by kids. They are very competitive and do a fantastic job in racking up the points! The running joke is: to put a youngster in front of the microphone is equivalent to a 6 dB increase in transmit power -- because the operator on the other end will almost always select their young voices from the pileups.