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 but still enjoy contesting like first day.
Merry Xmas and see you in the contest.
73....Douglas, CO8DM / T49A
Founder of T48K
"No creo que haya alguna emoción más intensa para un inventor que ver alguna
de sus creaciones funcionando. Esa emoción hace que uno se olvide de comer,
de dormir, de todo." - Nikola Tesla
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty s" <0246811@gmail.com>
To: "Michael Schulz" <mschulz@creative-chaos.com>
Cc: "cq-contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Survey results - part 1
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 contesting. I know
close to 45 kids in the hobby, and maybe 5 are into contesting somewhat,
and only 3 of us, care enough to keep the butt in the chair, or have a
hint
of skill (Don't make me tell you about the kids who start all exchanges
with "Please copy":) I think if we target the kids in the hobby who are
really seriously interested, and give the resources, there will be more
contesting young people. I know I wound not know much about contesting
without all of my Elmers in the YCCC, or being invited to a multi-multi
during CQ WW this year. Just my 2 cents.
Marty
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schulz
<mschulz@creative-chaos.com
wrote:
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 on age
and that amateur radio will be dead when the last old hams died. This
seems
to be always then be tied to
youth not coming into the hobby at a higher rate. How about a different
lens
in which one would look at influx
of new hams regardless of age? Do we need 90% (making an extreme example)
of
new hams to be <18 years old?
Especially in contesting, the 40+ age group (I find myself in that
bracket)
would seem more likely to engage in
contesting as new-comers given that by that time in life, things have
settled more overall, and disposable income
is (ideally) greater as compared to the 16 - 20 or 20 - 30 age brackets.
Thoughts?
73 Mike K5TRI
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf
> Of David Gilbert
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:49 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Survey results - part 1
>
>
>
> 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 pictures taken 30 years ago ...
pretty
> much all you see are people that are 30 years older.
>
> Somebody I was speaking to once claimed that the average age of ham
> radio
> ops in the U.S. increased at least one year every 1.5 years. Seems
> about
right
> to me.
>
> 73,
> Dave AB7E
>
>
>
> On 12/16/2015 5:41 PM, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
> > 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 demographic information about the responses.
> > The most striking finding is how old we are!
> >
> >
> >
> > Comments and discussion are welcome.
> >
> >
> >
> > Randy, K5ZD
> >
> >
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