[CQ-Contest] Young people.

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:46:34 -0600, Sylvan Katz wrote:

>may be the simplest solution to evolving the 'sport' of amateur
>radio contesting might be to encourage others to setup some alternative
>systems that use different scoring rules and categories. Participants in
>the major contests, like the CQ WW, participants could submit their
>logs/scores to these groups as well as to the normal committees. These
>new groups could apply their new and novel scoring systems, may be
>introduce some new categories and perhaps apply intriguing scoring
>systems 

There is already one such contest aimed at college and university operators.
The Collegiate Championship has "piggy-backed" on the ARRL November Sweepstakes
for six years now.  College and university clubs enter the Sweepstakes
operating multi-single from their on-campus club stations, and afterwards, we 
compare scores.  It has become very popular.

http://www.collegiatechampionship.org/


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