ARLA/CLUSTER: Conferencia na Suiça organizada pela USKA discutiu o Futuro dos Radioamadores

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Future Radio Amateurs

On Saturday, October 19, the strategy conference of the *USKA* on the topic
"Future Radio Amateurs" took place in Bern, Switzerland

A translation of the UKSA report says:

Present were 16 radio amateurs from three language regions. Three USKA
sections were represented.

The accompanying document "*Future Radio Amateurs*" had already been
studied by the participants before the conference. It describes the
challenge and the task facing us all.

Amateur radio gives MINT (Math, IT, Natural sciences, Technology)
interested young people the opportunity to validate their skills and
knowledge through a federally demanding license exam.
They thus demonstrate their willingness to perform and achieve advantages
for their personal and professional future. It is extremely important that
this track record is a high priority among the population, education and
employers. And of course also with young people themselves.

The aim of the process is to further develop the "amateur radio" profile,
integrate the modern technologies and thus again achieve a significantly
increased benefit, especially for young people who are undergoing training.

It was already pointed out in the invitation that competent participation
in this important strategic process is only possible if the participants
themselves have well-founded competences for the new technologies. In
amateur radio, it's not about just using the new technologies, in other
words using them. It's more about understanding them . That's a big
difference. Radio amateurs are not merely radio consumers and will
hopefully never be.

In an input presentation, Willi Vollenweider HB9AMC pointed to the
catastrophic situation in the extremely few U25 new members in the USKA. *Our
hobby is no longer attractive to the young*. This pretty hard statement
does not have to be proven; it is proven by the numbers.

In three group works some new, interesting ideas were worked out. The
complete lack of promotion of young talent in most sections was rejected by
many. However, the USKA can not make any provision to the sections, as the
statutory basis is lacking and the sections are autonomous associations. It
has long been known that many sections are now so obsolete that there is
only a choice between closure or merger.

Unfortunately, only one young adult (U25) participated in the meeting.
Already his speeches showed that we "old people" have to consult our young
people before we introduce any concrete measures for them.

Surprisingly, very few of the participants belong to a relevant specialist
society, as shown by an ad hoc survey (SEV / Electrosuisse, IEEE, ACM,
SwissICT, STV / Swiss Engineering, CH Open, Swico, ASUT). This partly
explains why amateur radio has largely lost its relationship to the real
economy and is hardly rewarded by it.

The published objective of the conference, "to integrate the modern
technologies" into the profile of the radio amateur, unfortunately could
not be achieved due to time constraints.

What is next to do? (short term)
A working group will be dedicated to the continuation of the work. The
following questions should be clarified, primarily under the aspect U25:

• which competence profile promises great benefits in today's digitized
world (specifically: topics, learning depth, theory / practice)
• What are our real USPs on the MINT Recreational Activity "Market" with
this new Competency Profile ?
• does everything have to be invented on its own or are we moving forward
with cooperation with similarly minded actors?

It should be remembered that the IARU-R1 has recognized the urgent need for
action. For this reason, the General Conference, which will take place in
2020, will also be devoted to strategic topics.

As international coordination is important, Willi HB9AMC will take part in
a similar conference of the DARC in November in Baunatal.

Many thanks to all participants of this important meeting. Since there are
important decisions to make in the USKA in this area, it was important to
seek the attitude of the members so that they could be included in the
decision-making process.

Willi Vollenweider HB9AMC

USKA in Google English
https://tinyurl.com/SwitzerlandUSKA

Conference documents
https://www.uska.ch/ausbildungs-tagung/

Paper "Future Radio Amateurs"
https://www.uska.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Input-Referat_Zukunft_
Funkamateur_19_
10_2019_Bern.pdf

Conference report
https://www.uska.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Bericht_Tagung_
Zukunft_Funkamateur.pdf
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