[CQ-Contest] CQ News: Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named WPX Contest Director

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NEWS RELEASE

For more  information, contact:
Richard Moseson (W2VU)
Editor, CQ Amateur  Radio
(516) 681-2922 / w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com
Randy  Thompson (K5ZD)
k5zd at cqwpx.com

FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE: May 8, 2008

Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Director of CQ WPX  Contests

(Hicksville, NY) May 8, 2008 -- Contesting luminary Randy  Thompson, K5ZD, 
has been named Director of the CQ World Wide WPX Contests,  effective 
immediately. Randy succeeds Steve Merchant, K6AW, who has been WPX  Contest Director 
since 2002 and who needed to step aside due to business  obligations. 

Randy has been a contester for more than three  decades and has multiple wins 
to his credit in the single-op, all-band  categories of both the CQ World 
Wide DX Contest and the CQ WPX Contest, in both  CW and SSB modes. Randy is also 
a past editor of the "National Contest Journal"  (a post he has held three 
separate times) and a co-founder of the eHam.net  website. He is a longtime 
member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club and an  instructor at K3LR's Contest 
University. In the past year, Randy has been  working with Steve Merchant behind 
the scenes on the WPX contests, so he is  already familiar with the program 
from the administrative side.

Any  questions regarding the 2008 WPX Contests (SSB weekend was held last 
March; CW  weekend is coming up at the end of May) should be directed to Randy 
via e-mail  to <k5zd at cqwpx.com>. We thank K6AW for his years of dedicated 
service to  the WPX Contests and look forward to a seamless transition to K5ZD's  
administration of the event.

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