[Uram-rejections] Young licence holders - what's your opinion?

Sun Apr 23 08:54:57 BST 2017

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> "Stephen Thomas Cole" <usenet at stephenthomascole.com> wrote in message 
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> > Following the news of George M0UKK achieving the Full licence at 9 years
> > old, and having seen a couple of negative reactions to it in "the other
> > place", I'm curious what the broad opinion is, do many of us think that
> > there should be a lower limit in age to hold a licence? Personally, I 
> > think
> > there shouldn't be, if a kid has the energy, wit, and wherewithal to bone
> > up and pass the exam then they should be welcomed with open arms! There's 
> > a
> > couple of licenced youngsters (an 11 year old and a 15 year old) at my
> > club, both of them are sharp as tacks and a pleasure to work on the air.
> > Frankly, the hobby needs more of them!
> >
> Personally I think it dangerous to converse with a 9 year old on amateur 
> radio, if you did it on your smart phone you would end up in trouble. The 
> problem is that the FL standard was set very low to llegalise shall we say 
> the 11m pirate of limited intelligence to stop them pirating which didn't 
> work anyway. As we have seen parents for some reason think it is a feather 
> in their cap to force weans into the hobby and it does them no favours when 
> the hobby is then ignored and never mentioned say on their kids facebook 
> page which just proved they weren't really interested.When I was 24 I was 
> befriended by a yoof who was 14 we went to rallies went up hills /p etc the 
> difference in age made no difference to either of us.......then after a 
> while he vanished.... I later found out his parents had been advised by my 
> fellow amateurs that I was a risk to young people. But then again when I was 
> 14 and took a train to a local radio club I was ran home by a couple of 
> GM3s......changed days indeed      Anyway best to avoid any kids in the 
> hobby for good reason.
> 
> 
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