I note that the overal membership may decrease because of age (putting it nicely!)
Maybe the ROA should try to attract the modern “Elecronics” Officers. The reason I say this is that if the “New Evil Empire” moves towards WW3, the first thing Putin will do is to mess-up satellites! Suddenly, we will need HF Morse as SSB is pathetic compared with CW. And we will need non-satellite navigation. Also, I heard somewhere that at least one School of Navigation no longer teaches astro!
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Thanks for your message John. For several years we tried exactly that and indeed for approximately five years we awarded a prize to “Student of the Year” ETO’s at two colleges. The idea was to generate some interest in the ROA and recognise that that the ‘market’ for want of a better expression had moved on, ie no new Radio Officers. The prize was a £100 Amazon voucher. We did not generate one new member and not one winner of the prize joined the ROA. We gave up.