For most of you, who took the time to bring up the idea of getting a ham
station started, and what caused its decline, and how long did they mostly
survive at schools for the blind?  When I was at Michigan's school for the
blind in the late 80s and early 90s there were lots of multi-handicapped
students, and some of which wouldn't know what a radio is if you set an AM
FM radio down in front of htem.  I did have some good memories radio
related even though back then I wasn't a ham.  This mainly involved
DSXING, and monitoring though, and I kept thinking of addressing the need
or idea of just a DX or scanner club at the school, but when I really got
into monitoring I had too many other things to worry about, and the stress
of the times at the school was taking its tole on the students.
        Never the less, I remember of course DXING for stations from the
Detroit area, and seeing how many I could monitor, and causing feedback to
a baby monitor that they had on a student's room who had some medical
problems, and hacking into the pager network that the school used for the
supervisors and nurses and maintenance that all used the older pageboys.
        I think that there was one student there when I was there who was
a ham, and I don't know where he is now, but he didn't say much about what
he did.  He kept quiet about his call because he couldn't give it out.  He
had something to do with his uncle's being in the service.
        When I got to regular high school I got a littlemmore involved
with the local ham club when I moved back home, and even then it was more
monitoring, and this was the school suses, and the hall monitors FRS
radios, and even that caughtthe attention of some students, and one got a
hold of a frequency counter and followed a monitor around, and that was
how I got their freq.





On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Anne West wrote:

> Reading this thread about ham stations at our schools brings back many
> memories of my high school years in early sixties.  I was the first general
> at Oak Hill in Hartford, CT?  Don't remember.  I do remember the ham shack
> was near the boys 4H room and the housemothers didn't like girls going to
> the shack while the boys were in the 4H room.  We had a two meter beam which
> we used on A.M. We had a Collins 310B I think and a DX something with a
> Hallicrafters RX.  Help me out, Barb.  Our advisor was a great man who
> elmered us through.  But, I have to say that K1EIR and K1EIC began the club.
>
> Have a nice weekend.
>
> Anne, K1STM
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