[CQ-Contest] Women in contesting

[Richard DiDonna NN3W]

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 at kenharker.com>
To: CQ Contest <cq-contest at 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 at kenharker.com
>http://www.kenharker.com/
>
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