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Quote from: VK5MCH on Oct 10, 2024, 11:14 AMI wonder how this new resource would have helped said girl in post #8 or guy in post #12 above.Mick,
It's all well and good for the WIA to try and help boost the numbers by building a separate education website, but if we have dickheads sitting on the side drilling people for getting their callsign wrong or getting the callsign sequence wrong on their first go on air, what's the point??
It's fairly easy to get a foundation licence these days and deliberately so, it's then up to the rest of us to help the new licencees move up if they want to or make them feel comfortable enough to want to hang around, not piss them off and embarrass them to the point where they leave.
Getting them a licence isn't the problem, VK5PH is doing a great job, 51 so far this year I believe. Keeping them is the problem. I can only imagine what the people who got bounced in post #8 and #12 above has told everyone they know about the welcome received. Great advertising.
Quote from: VK5AAD on Oct 09, 2024, 11:15 PMThe website was developed seperate to the WIA domain as that was what the committee had access too (I am a member of the WIA Education Committee). It now has a WIA domain link that points to the site. www.education.wia.org.auQuote from: VK5AV on Oct 09, 2024, 10:14 PMFeel free to take a look at this resource, work in progress.
The WIAs Education Committee have launched their own website...
By why in a separate domain? Why not something like education.wia.org since the WIA already owns and uses the wia.org domain. The com.au domain has reasonably strong controls on registrations, and this is a legit site, but creating names like this which include the name of a know company or organisation is a common tactic of scammers. Finally, why include social media links (Instagram, X and Facebook) on each page which go to those of the (presumably) hosting provider, SquareSpace, and not of the WIA?
For me, a relatively new amateur and even newer WIA member it gives the appearance of the Education Committee having to go around internal WIA obstacles - ie not a united organisation.
Quote from: VK5TM on Oct 20, 2024, 10:03 AMNot showing up on the map??
As in, is it active?