[UK-CONTEST] Contesting + support

[Tammie Evans]

Hello all, have been reading the various messages over the last few days 
or so and thought I would "jump" in.

I have only been licensed since August 2003 and was awfully mic-shy 
until a fellow club member persuaded me that talking on the air really 
wasn't so bad and no-one would laugh at me!  That happened in the start 
of 2006 and since then I've taken part in Transmission, CQ WW SSB, CQ 
WPX SSB and a couple of club events - I absolutely love contesting - I 
may only be a "newbie" with not much experience (and not many points) 
but it's great fun!

I'm afraid my club is small (too much politics over the years from what 
I understand!) at the moment with around 30 members, but even when we 
had around 60 members there is one person who opens up one of the club 
rooms for the CC events and Windmills but it's never very serious 
contesting, and extremely difficult to get anyone to operate!  There are 
probably 5 or 6 members who do CC from home and send the scores in for 
the club.  I've always found it to be a struggle to get the club to take 
part in the big contests so I just do it with one other person who is 
slowly becoming very interested in contesting!

Anyway, that's another "newbies" perspective on things... it's quite 
funny really, I'm female (I seem to cause pile-ups which is very 
nerve-racking!) and young which you don't seem to find in many radio clubs!

73 Tammie M3ENF