To listen to this transmission you have to fine-tune transistors and capacitors to receive a better signal. Before government discontinued Short Wave transmissions, my mother's radio was the most messed around equipment in the house. There are literally millions of youngsters in the rural areas and townships who grew up like me, interested in electronics. I never knew that there was an organization for Amateur Radio in South Africa until several years ago when I attended, with the Director General of the Department of Communications, a Radio Amateur of the Year Award function in Midrand. SARL has to raise its profile beyond its traditional footprint.
Organizations have to grow and attract new blood.
Numbers are important if you are to be taken seriously by government and the private sector. Therefore the growth of SARL both qualitatitive and quantitative is a necessity for the survival and viability of amateur radio in South Africa. Without being too prescriptive, I think your organization should be a home to all South Africans who have an interest in amateur radio. The SARL membership must reflect a cross mixture of our country's population including women and the disabled. There has to be a special effort to reach out to young radio amateurs in the rural areas.