[CQ-Contest] Women in contesting

[Scott Pederson]

If I remember, weren't their calls WE7D and WE7B?

Scott - DR


--- Richard DiDonna NN3W <NN3W at prodigy.net> wrote:
> 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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