[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Survey results - part 1

[Marty s]

I agree, I spend a lot of my time getting more young hams involved. I am
13, and am fairly active in the contests. There are plenty of young kids
getting into the hobby, but not anywhere as many into contesting. I know
close to 45 kids in the hobby, and maybe 5 are into contesting somewhat,
and only 3 of us, care enough to keep the butt in the chair, or have a hint
of skill (Don't make me tell you about the kids who start all exchanges
with "Please copy":) I think if we target the kids in the hobby who are
really seriously interested, and give the resources, there will be more
contesting young people. I know I wound not know much about contesting
without all of my Elmers in the YCCC, or being invited to a multi-multi
during CQ WW this year. Just my 2 cents.


Marty

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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Michael Schulz <mschulz at creative-chaos.com
> wrote:

> Interesting results which show that if you want to be successful, be closer
> to or in Europe :).
>
> Regarding the age distribution, I see this concern all the time that there
> are declining numbers based on age
> and that amateur radio will be dead when the last old hams died. This seems
> to be always then be tied to
> youth not coming into the hobby at a higher rate. How about a different
> lens
> in which one would look at influx
> of new hams regardless of age? Do we need 90% (making an extreme example)
> of
> new hams to be <18 years old?
> Especially in contesting, the 40+ age group (I find myself in that bracket)
> would seem more likely to engage in
> contesting as new-comers given that by that time in life, things have
> settled more overall, and disposable income
> is (ideally) greater as compared to the 16 - 20 or 20 - 30 age brackets.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> 73 Mike K5TRI
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf
> > Of David Gilbert
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:49 PM
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Survey results - part 1
> >
> >
> >
> > I don't find the age distribution to be surprising at all.  Age data from
> the All
> > Asian contest exchange looks similar.  Look at the pictures from Dayton
> or
> > any club meeting and compare them to pictures taken 30 years ago ...
> pretty
> > much all you see are people that are 30 years older.
> >
> > Somebody I was speaking to once claimed that the average age of ham radio
> > ops in the U.S. increased at least one year every 1.5 years. Seems about
> right
> > to me.
> >
> > 73,
> > Dave  AB7E
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/16/2015 5:41 PM, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
> > > There is a new blog post with the first results from the CQ WW Contest
> > > survey that was open during September 2015.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > http://cqww.com/blog/2015-cq-ww-survey-results-part-1/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This first post cover demographic information about the responses.
> > > The most striking finding is how old we are!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Comments and discussion are welcome.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Randy, K5ZD
> > >
> > >
> > >
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