[CQ-Contest] CQ-CONTEST history post from 30 years ago

[jpescatore at aol.com]

Tom - that quote of 300 subscribers was part of Trey's original 1993 post!
73 John K3TN


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From: Tom Frenaye <frenaye at pcnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-CONTEST history post from 30 years ago

K3TN said "The CQ-Contest mailing list now has about 300 direct subscribers in 15 DXCC countries and an unknown number of readers via redistribution channels.

Actually, CQ=Contest has 1528 users and it has been over 1000 for years.

    73 and HNY  Tom/K1KI (and John/K1AR) co-admins

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On 1/2/23, 5:53 PM, "CQ-Contest on behalf of K3TN via CQ-Contest" <cq-contest-bounces+frenaye=pcnet.com at contesting.com <mailto:pcnet.com at contesting.com> on behalf of cq-contest at contesting.com <mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>> wrote:


Was trying to fact check my own memory about doing a multi-single at K3ZO in 1987 or so with KM3T (also KC8C (sk) and WB3JRU (W3RU)) and search on our calls brought up this from September 1993:
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH at TGV.COM <mailto:GARLOUGH at TGV.COM>> Wed Sep 22 16:48:05 1993
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH at TGV.COM <mailto:GARLOUGH at TGV.COM>> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: Administrative Note
Message-ID: <748712885.542798.GARLOUGH at TGV.COM <mailto:748712885.542798.GARLOUGH at TGV.COM>>


First a historical note:


The CQ-Contest mailing list started as a project with a few fellow
contesters who had Internet access and who wanted to discuss
contesting in a less painful forum than the net.ham-radio net.news 
group. The initial subscribers were WN4KKN, KM3T and WB2EKK. The
initial setup of the list was delayed about two weeks while we tried
to think up a name for it. We picked up a few more folks along the 
way before WB2EKK sent an invitation to join the list to every ham in 
the entire world he knew of who had an email address -- at the time 
about 20 people. These were the days that messages to CQ-Contest 
numbered 15 per month rather than 15 per day. This was sometime in
early 1991. In early 1992 I stared saving these messages, as if 
anyone would ever want to read them a second time.


In late 1992 (I think), WB2EKK took the contest mailing list public
in his column in the NCJ. The CQ-Contest mailing list now has about 
300 direct subscribers in 15 DXCC countries and an unkown number of 
readers via redistribution channels. The is not so surprising when
considered in the context of the Internet itself, which is growing 
at the rate of 40% per *month.*


73 John K3TN (ex WB2EKK)
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