On a bright note, a teacher at a high school in Staten Island, NY is helping to train the next generation of America’s amateur radio operators!
According to a recent news brief posted on the website of the National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL), Everton Henriques, a teacher at the Staten Island Technical High School and a licensed amateur radio operator, has developed a program intended to teach his students about radio technologies. Henriques has reportedly taught his students about high-frequency technologies, local repeater use, foxhunting, and space communications and plans to incorporate training on mesh networking in the coming academic year.
Equally important, Henriques has helped more than 100 of his students take and pass the licensing exam, with many of them successfully passing the tests necessary to upgrade their licenses from General to Extra.
The news brief about Henriques’ training efforts is available at the ARRL website at https://www.arrl.org/news/new-york-high-school-helps-license-amateur-radio-operators.
