Title: RadioSport%20/%20Contesting:%20Amateur%20Radio
1RadioSport / ContestingAmateur Radios Swiss
Army KnifeorExtreme Ham Radio?
2What do YOU enjoy about ham radio?
- Working DX/chasing awards
- Building a station
- Hanging out with ham friends
- Traffic handling
- Emergency Comms
- Ragchewing
- Trying New Bands/Modes
3RadioSport has all these!
Cut through pileups
Sharpen operating skills
Build a station
Be the Most Reliable In Emergency Comms
Hang out with ham friends
Punch your messages through
Screw around on new bands/modes
4But its also EXTREME ! !
- Learn how to crack pileups even with QRP
- Work DXCC in a weekend
- Make 400 QSOs in one hour
- Learn how to make your signal loud, then louder
- Meet and learn from the big guns, then become one
of them! - And most importantly have more fun!
5The Best Thing About Radiosport
- Anyone can play!
- It doesnt take a megabucks station
- The big stations need QSOs from everyone!
- Imagine being allowed to play in the Olympics
even if you are a casual jogger!
6Trivia Quiz
- Q When was the first ham radio contest?
- A When the third guy got on the air!
7Is this the station of a Big Gun?
WN1ICD, 1967
WPE1GZQ, 1966
8Competition is a natural thing otherwise
thered be no sports
- RadioSport is a lot like car racing to win
either, it takes - Equipment
- Operating skill
- Experience
- Luck
- And win or lose, you
- Learn
- Make friends
- Have fun
9But winning is really great!
K1DG K1AR win Gold Medal at WRTC1990 in Seattle
10But winning (or anywhere on the medal stand)
is great!
K1DG K1AR win Bronze Medals at WRTC2000 in
Slovenia
11But winning (or anywhere on the medal stand) is
great!
K1DG N2NT win Bronze Medals at WRTC2006 in
Brazil
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13Todays Program
- 1330 WA1ZÂ Planning and Evaluating Station
Improvements - 1345 K1NUÂ Understanding Propagation
- 1400 AD1CÂ Chasing DX and Associated Awards
- 1415 WA1ZÂ Honing Your Operating Skills
- 1430 K1TTT Resources/Tools Available for
RadioSport - 1445 WA1ZÂ Logging and Automation Software
Overview - 1500 K1IRÂ Competition - Setting Goals, Your
First Contest - 1515 K1DGÂ K1RX Wrap Up and Invitation to
RadioSport
14Followed at 1530 (330 PM) by
- General Meeting of the Yankee Clipper Contest
Club New Contesters Welcome! - Highlights
- FS5 DXpedition
- Youth Scholarship Raffle Drawing
- Membership applications will be available and new
members are welcome