[CQ-Contest] Re: [book] call for chapter ideas

[Pete Smith]

Hi Jeff -- I'd gladly volunteer to help any way I can.

I don't care much for your intro title -- sounds too defensive.  Instead,
maybe a foreword explaining how the book came about, and then into a
positive intro chapter.  How about "Getting Started in Contesting" with
subtitles like

            --picking a contest

            --getting your feet wet

            --QSLing (by all means, if you need the card for an award)

            --submitting your log

Other chapter titles I'd suggest:

"Multi-op contesting -- small or large-scale"

"Field Day -- the contest that isn't 'really' a contest"

"Contesting from a restricted QTH"

"Contesting on a budget"

I think this book could go well beyond the paperback setting.  How about
getting the more general-interest chapters (or adaptations) published in
QST as individual articles?  Then go the next step and include a CD and/or
links to audio, video and still-photo files on the web.






            

73, Pete N4ZR

Sometimes a tower is
just a tower


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