November 4, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

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via the ARRL: High School and a Sci-Fi Movie Spark Interest in Amateur Radio

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Steve Schickel was a young high school student in the late ’80s and was introduced to amateur radio through his electronics classes. He also spent time working at a local RadioShack and watching science fiction movies at a nearby theater in his hometown of Pensacola, Florida.

Amateur radio’s next biggest influence on Steve came in 1997, on opening night of the movie “Contact,” about a scientist …

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