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ANOTHER CQ-WE Contest is under our belts:
and from what I've heard it was a pretty good contest. The main complaint,
as in previous years, is the lack of CW participants. Sure, the band
conditions were awful -- this sunspot cycle has presented some of the most
significant challenges in our lifetimes according to some -- but I was
working 40 meters at a respectable clip on Sunday afternoon.
But now that you've spent time collecting all those contacts, don't
forget to send in your logs so that they count. Even if you don't win
they can still help your location, both in total points and number of
participants. Send your logs to your location coordinator at the address
shown on our location coordinators' page. If there is no LC for your
location, send your logs to National Coordinator Tom Brown, W2EQ.
If you submit
your results by email to the NC, you should get a confirmation email
back from him. If you don't please let us know so that it can be
corrected. Finally, be sure to include your email address, regardless
of how you file, so that we can send you an electronic copy of your
certificate.
We hope you enjoyed this year's contest. If you have comments or
suggestions, please include them with your logs. We look forward to
making another contact with you again soon.
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HAVE A QUESTION about CQ-WE? Email the
National Coordinator.
Interested in discussing the contest or just want to keep in touch?
Feel free to join
Ma-Bell-Hams,
a Yahoo E-mail Group where such discussions are welcome:
Just enter your email address in the space below and click "Join Now!".
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CONTEST HOST:
The role of Contest Host is an important one, and we appreciate the time
and effort the various locations have put into designing and distributing
their certificates in years past.
We are therefore pleased to announce that brothers Ken and Al Hanzl, W2IOC
and K2AL, with the help of their non-ham sister Joan, will produce the certs
for the 2018 contest. The certs will highlight the Kearny location. Their
father, the original holder of the W2IOC call, worked at Kearny for 42 years
so the family has a rich history in the location. We look forward to seeing
this year's certificate.
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HELP US COMPILE a Historical Record of our Bell System Locations and Ham Clubs:
A big part of the CQ-WE contest is communicating with as many different
Location Codes
as possible. The locations these codes represent made up the once great
Bell System.
Today, many — actually, most — of these locations, along
with their location-sanctioned ham clubs, are either defunct or a shadow of
their former selves.
The CQ-WE committee is undertaking a project to resurrect
and preserve a history of the various Bell System locations before this
information and heritage is permanently lost. But, its success depends
on you! Please check our
Location Histories
page, and if you can provide some information on a missing location —
or additional information on one that has already been published —
consider authoring a short article describing your location. If it supported
a corporate ham club, please include your remembrances of that, too. Use
the existing write-ups as guides for style and format. Please send your
material to the CQ-WE webmaster,
cqwe-web-2016@cboh.org,
and we'll put it up on the web site to highlight your location for posterity,
and even give you credit in the byline.
By taking a few minutes to document what you know from your personal
experience with AT&T and its subsidiaries, we hope to preserve some
of the rich history of the many facets of the once proud and great
Bell System.
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