And put on the list: Emily, P43E, who loves contesting and is in the
process of establishing a 3-tower contest station in Aruba.
73, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y
----- Original Message -----
From: "K5ZM" <k5zm@comcast.net>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Women in contesting
> Let's not forget KB0VVT. Also, KB9THU, whom I've not heard quite as often
as
> Rebecca, but she still shows up now and again.
>
> 73,
>
> Ian, K5ZM
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> > bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Richard DiDonna NN3W
> > Sent: Thursday, 17 March, 2005 6:59 AM
> > To: Kenneth E. Harker; CQ Contest
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Women in contesting
> >
> > I can remember three female hams/contesters that stick
> > in my mind.
> >
> > Two were sisters - Zitto sisters? They lived in Utah,
> > and were my age when I used to talk to them back in
> > the early 90s.
> >
> > The other was a DX station on Maui - totally sirenic
> > voice. "Calling CQ from the island of Maauuuuiiii,"
> > she used to say.
> >
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Rich NN3W
> > --- Original Message ---
> > From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
> > To: CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Women in contesting
> >
> > > An article I wrote last August has finally been
> > published on the
> > >ARRLWeb:
> > >
> > >http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2005/03/15/1/?nc=1
> > >
> > > Although there is significant regional
> > variation, one out of every
> > >seven hams in the U.S. is female.
> > >
> > > Based on my own personal observations during
> > domestic phone contests
> > >and other contests with a very large number of
> > domestic contacts like the
> > >Sweepstakes, NAQP, the ARRL 10 Meter Contest, and the
> > IARU, only about
> > >one in every fifty to sixty contesters in the U.S. is
> > female.
> > >
> > > If we could just improve the male/female ratio
> > in contesting to match
> > >that of ham radio at large, how many more QSOs could
> > that be? Today, in a
> > >2,000 QSO Sweepstakes log, you are probably making
> > fewer than 40 QSOs with
> > >female hams. If you worked the same number of male
> > hams, but the number
> > >of female operators worked went from 2% to 15% of the
> > total, you would
> > >be making over 2,300 total QSOs.
> > >
> > > Wouldn't 300 more QSOs be fun?
> > >
> > >--
> > >Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> > >kenharker@kenharker.com
> > >http://www.kenharker.com/
> > >
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