<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Student promotes Ham Radio</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The Asahi newspaper reports 16-year-old <strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Yuki Fukumitsu JM8JPN</strong> is encouraging a new younger generation to take up Amateur Radio <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">It may no longer be the &quot;king of hobbies&quot; that it once was, but amateur radio is now a calling to kids in a generation that grew up on smartphones. Well, at least one of them. And 16-year-old Yuki Fukumitsu is sending out the call to others to try their hand at ham radio themselves.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The number of local radio hams has rapidly decreased since the hobby&#39;s heyday in the 1970s, with many of them now in their 70s. However, the first-year Hokkaido Kushiro Meiki Senior High School student has taken a deep interest in such technology, as it is &quot;uncertain&quot; unlike the ubiquitous smartphone.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">The young hopeful said: “My friends don’t quite understand the fun of amateur radio. I want to recruit like-minded people through Twitter and a Blog.”<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Read the full article at <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201901280004.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201901280004.html</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Yuki Fukumitsu JM8JPN <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/JM8JPN-Blog" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://tinyurl.com/JM8JPN-Blog</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://twitter.com/JM8JPN" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://twitter.com/JM8JPN</a></p></div>