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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