Event organization
- Getting new volunteers
- Funding
- Station/technical equipment
- Picking the right activities
- Reaching the clubs
- Cooperation with member societies
Getting new volunteers
Group 2
Offer help to the community especially in events where there are a lot of youth involved such as JOTA/JOTI. Going to science fairs and setting up a ham radio booth, social media...
Funding
Group 2
Asking for money to big sponsors and letting them know about the hobby and how it is related with technology and experiments. Detailed explications, asking a lot of them. Selling point: World wide, presentations, sponsorship
Group 10
- Reach out telecom companies
- Stores selling radios
- Reach out to government and offer help for emergency/distress
- Reach out electronic/ham radio companies
- Writing articles
Station/technical equipment
What do do when you have no equipment?
Group 2
Ask emlers for equipment they don't use anymore or get a broken one to fix it (ham spirit), join local clubs, YOTA Camps, ask sponsors...Clubs can also organize a monthly fair where they collect old gear used for giveaways.
Group 12
Asking associations or friends. It's also helpful to follow social media pages or websites of local clubs so it's possible to contact them directly
Picking the right activities
Group 2
For sporty people, we can introduce ARDF. For techies, we can introduce RF concepts. Factors to be taken into account being:
- Gender
- age
- income
- knowledge level
Group 10
- Social media -> good advertising
- Schools, Unis
- Fairs -> topics encouraging people
- Workshops (kit building)
- Friends
- newsletter
- Flyers
- Activities in public -> getting strangers interested
- Smaller kids -> ARDF, small radio games
Reaching the clubs
Group 12
There should be more school club stations where the youth can talk through radio and see how it works. Introducing the topic of HAM radio in schools is important so that kids can learn how it works as early as possible. Schools also hold openings where students can freely observe and participate in the activities.