[CVCC] Youth in Contesting

[HOWARD MOTLEY]

Sounds good to me. We can make the donation in memory of W4MYA. I'm sure we will inform Bob's sisters of any such donation too as they are the original source of these funds.

Puck

> On January 10, 2019 at 6:45 AM Bob W4DR <w4dr at mindspring.com mailto:w4dr at mindspring.com > wrote:
> 
> 
>     I think this is a good idea. Maybe $100 to the cause. W4DR
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Ronnie Bolton
>     Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 9:49 PM
>     To: 'CVCC - reflector'
>     Subject: [CVCC] Youth in Contesting
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     This was posted in the weekly ARRL Contest Update newsletter. Since we
>     suddenly have a lot of funds donated to us in MYA's memory, I was wondering
>     if there might be any interest in making a contribution to this effort? I
>     believe that this would be something that Bob would have supported at his
>     own station if he could have made it happen.
> 
>     Thoughts anyone?
> 
>     73
> 
>     Ronnie
> 
>     WU4G
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Marty, NN1C (recently ex-KC1CWF), writes: "I am currently involved in
>     leading a team of youth in operating WPX SSB 2019 at superstation K3LR. We
>     have formed a M/2, and are working together to put on a competitive effort.
>     The team currently consists of NN1C, KM4ATT, DK4EE, HA8RT, KG5HVO,
>     W6BQ/KK6NON, and VE7DZO. The effort will be completely operated and planned
>     by people under 21. We are calling ourselves Team Exuberance. The idea is
>     that our team makes up for experience and practice though energy, planning,
>     and excitement. To help make this possible, we are raising money. Our
>     current goal is to raise $5,000 dollars via our GoFundMe website
>     http://www.teamexuberance.org. These funds will be used for 2 nights worth
>     of hotel rooms for the team, flights for those who need to fly in (W6BQ,
>     KC1CWF, VE7DZO), and helping with the flights from Europe for DK4EE, and
>     HA8RT, as well as other incidentals such as food and other consumables. Any
>     funds left over will be put towards future youth-only contesting events. We
>     hope we can train the contesters of the future in doing this. People with
>     questions are more than welcome to email us at team at teamexuberance.org mailto:team at teamexuberance.org
>     <mailto:team at teamexuberance.org mailto:team at teamexuberance.org > ."
> 
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