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RadioSport / ContestingAmateur Radios Swiss
Army KnifeorExtreme Ham Radio?

• Doug Grant, K1DG

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What 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

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RadioSport 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
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But 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!

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The 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!

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Trivia Quiz

• Q When was the first ham radio contest?
• A When the third guy got on the air!

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Is this the station of a Big Gun?
WN1ICD, 1967
WPE1GZQ, 1966
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Competition 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

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But winning is really great!
K1DG K1AR win Gold Medal at WRTC1990 in Seattle
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But winning (or anywhere on the medal stand)
is great!
K1DG K1AR win Bronze Medals at WRTC2000 in
Slovenia
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But winning (or anywhere on the medal stand) is
great!
K1DG N2NT win Bronze Medals at WRTC2006 in
Brazil
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Todays Program

• 1330 WA1Z  Planning and Evaluating Station
  Improvements
• 1345 K1NU  Understanding Propagation
• 1400 AD1C  Chasing DX and Associated Awards
• 1415 WA1Z  Honing Your Operating Skills
• 1430 K1TTT Resources/Tools Available for
  RadioSport
• 1445 WA1Z  Logging and Automation Software
  Overview
• 1500 K1IR  Competition - Setting Goals, Your
  First Contest
• 1515 K1DG  K1RX Wrap Up and Invitation to
  RadioSport

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Followed 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