There is a new blog post with the first results from the CQ WW Contest survey that was open during September 2015. http://cqww.com/blog/2015-cq-ww-survey-results-part-1/ This first post cover demogra
I don't find the age distribution to be surprising at all. Age data from the All Asian contest exchange looks similar. Look at the pictures from Dayton or any club meeting and compare them to picture
If you want CW to be even more popular in the US, how about swapping CW and SSB weekends every other year so that it doesn't align with the Thanksgiving holiday about 6 years out of 7. 73, geo - n4ua
Author: Charlie via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:36:16 -0500
Great idea!!! If you want CW to be even more popular in the US, how about swapping CW and SSB weekends every other year so that it doesn't align with the Thanksgiving holiday about 6 years out of 7.
Author: Michael Schulz <mschulz@creative-chaos.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 08:37:10 -0800
Interesting results which show that if you want to be successful, be closer to or in Europe :). Regarding the age distribution, I see this concern all the time that there are declining numbers based
I agree, I spend a lot of my time getting more young hams involved. I am 13, and am fairly active in the contests. There are plenty of young kids getting into the hobby, but not anywhere as many into
As for CW being the most popular mode, I know for me it is a result of my hearing loss I wear hearing aids and it is so much easier to copy CW than SSB with all the accents, etc. 73 Tom W7WHY There i
Hi Marty Glad to see there are some young contesters here. Please don't focus on things others are doing wrong like "Please copy..." We all learn from our mistakes, and we get better through practice
Author: Chris Wynn via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:43:13 +0000 (UTC)
I was first licensed at 12 years of age. Fortunately, I had a great mentor, Mike Greenway, K4PI, that always kept me pushing further. With that being said, I didn't not have the resources to contes
Author: Michael Schulz <mschulz@creative-chaos.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 13:27:48 -0800
I guess the "Please copy ..." comes from maybe their first exposure to "contesting" during Field Day which is not a contest (yes it is, and we're going to win it anyway). And yes, leading by example
At the moment, CW is the favorite contest operating mode; however, if you look at the Favorite Mode by Age graph, this isn't true for hams less than 40 years old. I think as we get new (younger) hams
John, Thanks for taking the time to do this survey. As one of the more vocal person's on the reflector against this practice, I'm very disappointed and shocked at the survey results. I really don't s
"Please copy" is a non-optimal way to exchange information over a radio channel b/c it takes time to say and doesn't significantly improve the chances that the station at the other end will successfu
"Please Copy", which seems to unduly irritate a few, has honest roots in contesting. ARRL Sweepstakes was first conceived as a test of traffic handling skills, and the exchange format was taken from
Very interesting, Hans! 73, Matt NQ6N _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
Hi Marty, Congratulations and good luck in the contest. I began like you, very young with only 13 years old with VERY LIMITED working conditions but it is always fun and very instructive. I am 40 now
I agree. I too will defer posting to 3830 until after logs are due. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contest
Another take on this.... For those who were required to know CW (send and receive perfectly for a minute at 20 WPM to get an extra class license) CW is their favorite mode by a big margin. For the gr
Some of the most-common time-wasters among new contesters I hear are: 1. Unnecessarily repeating phonetics. In most cases, you should be able to say nq6n 599 mb. Only if its really challenging or a f
I agree with most of Kelly's post, but I have a slight correction / elaboration / justification on two of the items: If the running station is fairly sure, but not 100% positive, that they got the ca