My boss at ARDC has asked me to take a look at TikTok and come up with some ideas as to whether it’s worth it for us to spend time on creating our own videos. So, today, I created a TikTok account and browsed around for a while, searching for amateur radio content. Honestly, I was a bit disappointed.
Whereas on YouTube there’s just tons of amateur radio content, I only found a few TikTokers producing much amateur radio content. These include:
- @glamhamradio. Natalie, NW6S, is the TikToker behind this channel(?). She seems to have a good grasp of how to create short, instructional videos.
- @radioprep. David, W5CWT, has only eight videos in his channel, but all of them show how he used regular “stuff” in ham radio.
- @k5ata_goodgamehamradio. This is the channel of Steve, K5ATA, the ARRL’s Education and Learning Manager. There are 17 TikToks in this channel, but not all of them are related to ham radio.
Am I missing something here? Are there other TikTokers with more and interesting amateur radio content? If so, I’d really like to know about it.
Also, I’m trying to think how we might use TikTok to promote ARDC. I suppose that we could get some grantees to send in videos, then extract clips to post as TikToks. Do you think that would be of any interest to people? I’m kind of thinking that it wouldn’t be worth the time and energy.
From my own point of view, I might try to make a few TikToks to illustrate points in my No Nonsense study guides. It should be simple enough to do a few of them and see if they get any traction. What do you think?