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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