[CQ-Contest] Why Are European Contesters Younger?

[Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB]

Hi Pete,

This is a FB topic, and some reflexion should be made from all of us 
about it.

I remember that in 2008 Contest Dinner someone who was speaking made a 
joke about the age of the attendants. He started asking to people in a 
given age range to raise their hands. When he got down to "30 to 20" 
years old, less than half a dozen raised their hands (including me). 
When he went down to "less than 20", only ONE boy raised his hand.

Really sad.

I am afraid that in the future the mostly like thing we will be able to 
do like a CW contest will be playing morserunner.

73,

Felipe - PY1NB


Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> In trolling through web sites recently, I have come away with one 
> dominant impression - non-US contesters, and particularly those in 
> Europe, are on average much younger than their US counterparts.
> 
> The question is "why?"  All speculations welcome.
> 

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Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
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