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NEWS RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Richard Moseson (W2VU)
Editor, CQ Amateur Radio
(516) 681-2922 / w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com
Randy Thompson (K5ZD)
k5zd@cqwpx.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 8, 2008
Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Director of CQ WPX Contests
(Hicksville, NY) May 8, 2008 -- Contesting luminary Randy Thompson, K5ZD,
has been named Director of the CQ World Wide WPX Contests, effective
immediately. Randy succeeds Steve Merchant, K6AW, who has been WPX Contest
Director
since 2002 and who needed to step aside due to business obligations.
Randy has been a contester for more than three decades and has multiple wins
to his credit in the single-op, all-band categories of both the CQ World
Wide DX Contest and the CQ WPX Contest, in both CW and SSB modes. Randy is
also
a past editor of the "National Contest Journal" (a post he has held three
separate times) and a co-founder of the eHam.net website. He is a longtime
member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club and an instructor at K3LR's Contest
University. In the past year, Randy has been working with Steve Merchant
behind
the scenes on the WPX contests, so he is already familiar with the program
from the administrative side.
Any questions regarding the 2008 WPX Contests (SSB weekend was held last
March; CW weekend is coming up at the end of May) should be directed to Randy
via e-mail to <k5zd@cqwpx.com>. We thank K6AW for his years of dedicated
service to the WPX Contests and look forward to a seamless transition to
K5ZD's
administration of the event.
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