[CQ-Contest] CQ News: Ed Muns, W0YK, Named CQ RTTY Contest Director

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

Congrats Ed!

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From: Richard Moseson <w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com>
Date: 2008/11/24
Subject: [Cq-l] CQ News: Ed Muns, W0YK, Named CQ RTTY Contest Director
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>From the CQ Newsroom...

Ed Muns, W0YK, Named CQ RTTY Contest Director

(Hicksville, NY November 24, 2008) -- Ed Muns, W0YK, of Los Gatos,
California, has been named Director of CQ magazine's radioteletype
(RTTY) contests, CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, announced today. CQ sponsors
the world's two most popular annual RTTY competitions, the CQ World Wide
RTTY WPX Contest each February and the CQ World Wide RTTY DX Contest every
September.

Muns succeeds Glenn Vinson, W6OTC, who has been CQ's RTTY Contest Director
since 2000, and who guided the events to their current levels of popularity.
The number of logs submitted for the RTTY DX contest has tripled in the past
eight years, despite declining sunspots throughout the period. "I am glad to
have had this opportunity to help promote RTTY contesting," says Vinson,
adding that Muns has already been working closely with other members of the
CQ RTTY Contest Committee, software authors and other CQ contest directors
to assure a smooth transition. "I feel very confident that these contests
will continue to gain strength year over year."

Ed Muns was first licensed in 1962, and has been contesting since the 1970s.
He has been active in RTTY contesting since 2004 and very quickly set two
world records in operations from Aruba. He has also been the NA RTTY Sprint
contest manager since 2005. Professionally, Ed is retired from a career as
an engineering executive for Hewlett-Packard, and currently owns and
operates a Pinot Noir vineyard in California that he started ten years ago.

Both Glenn and Ed point out that Glenn's original plan had been to transfer
responsibility for the CQ RTTY contests to his co-director for the past
several years, Paolo Cortese, I2UIY. However, Paolo unexpectedly became a
Silent Key in October, 2008. Ed stepped in to fill the void that was created
by Paolo's passing.

"We thank Glenn for his many years of service to our RTTY contests, and his
great success in building up their popularity," noted CQ Editor Moseson,
"and we welcome Ed to the CQ 'family' with thanks for his willingness to
step up to the plate on short notice and take on this responsibility."

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