[UK-CONTEST] Contesting + support

[Ian Fugler G4IIY]

Tammie

To me, that puts all the debate in to some perspective and should give us 
all encouragement.  Well done and thank you for sharing it with us.

I sincerely hope that RadCom would run a short article describing your 
experience.  I would be happy to add some material from experiences here, 
when I have opened up the shack for members of the Carlisle Club to come and 
have a go at some contesting in a secure environment.

Ian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tammie Evans" <m3enf at dsl.pipex.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contesting + support


> 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
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