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Old Hamfest — New Hams

04/13/2012

In the 30 years I’ve been teaching ham radio, I’ve always found that successfully training new hams is easy. Filling a class with students is not so easy. A couple of years ago, I thought, “hey, why not take the class to the largest ham gathering in the world?” Certainly, there would be many hundreds of potential hams at that location. This is the story of that strange journey.

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