zines

Last night, on Mastodon, I came across a post that just made me say, “Wow!” It contained a link to a post by Susan Kaye Quinn, who is a speculative fiction author with a PhD in environmental engineering, who writes hopepunk climate fiction & solarpunk. The post on Quinn’s webiste includes the following video on how to make an eight-page “zine” from a single sheet of paper.

I love this idea so much that I now want to make my own ham radio zines. The first could be  something like, “Cool Things that Hams Do.” Off the top of my head, I have come up with the following eight pages:

• Title Page: Cool Things that Hams Do
• Build Radios
• Operate from parks and lighthouse and…
• Bounce signals off meteor trails
• Set up our own communications networks
• Talk to astronauts on the ISS (and other hams via satellites)
• Talk to each other using Morse Code
• Back Page – Want to get your own ham license?

Heres a start I made on the “Cool things hams do” zine, and here’s a template in Word format if you want to get started on your own.

Let’s make this a community effort

I”d love to make this a community effort. Here’s how you can help:

• If you can draw, perhaps you could make a drawing illustrating one or more points above.
• Come up with other ideas for the zine.
• Come up with ideas for other, more focused zines on particular topics.