National Contest Journal
ISSN 0899-0131 | |
The National Contest Journal (also referred to by the
History
The National Contest Journal was founded by Minnesotan contester Tod Olson, K0TO. In his editorial for volume 1, issue 1 (January/February, 1973), Olson described the motivational purpose of the publication: "We believe that a genuine desire exists for more information about Radio Contests. Most of us have an interest in learning about other stations, operators, etc that we find in competition with us."[2] Olson relied upon the National Traffic System to gather claimed scores in order to print tables of likely competition winners months before the official results were published by the contest sponsors. Publication for the first three years was done with typewriters and offset printing. Each issue was 16 pages in 5" x 7.5" format. After printing, issues were assembled at Olson's home and mailed from a local post office.[2]
Editors
In over 50 years of publication, the National Contest Journal has had 18 different
Editor | Years |
Tod Olson, K0TO | 1973-1975 |
Pete Grillo, W0RTT | 1975-1978 |
Tod Olson, K0TO | 1978-1979 |
Randy Thompson, K5ZD | 1979-1980 |
Tom Taormina, K5RC | 1981 |
John Crovelli, W2GD | 1981-1982 |
Rick Niswander, K7GM | 1982-1983 |
Randy Thompson, K5ZD | 1983-1984 |
Dave Pruett, K8CC | 1985-1987 |
Randy Thompson, K5ZD | 1988-1989 |
Tom Taormina, K5RC | 1989-1993 |
Trey Garlough, N5KO | 1993-1994 |
Bruce Draper, AA5B | 1994-1996 |
Dave Patton, NN1N | 1997 |
Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV | 1998-2002 |
Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA | 2002-2007 |
Al Dewey, K0AD | 2008-2011 |
Kirk Pickering, K4RO | 2012-2014 |
Pat Barkey, N9RV | 2015-2017 |
Scott Wright, K0MD | 2018-2020 |
Lee Finkel, KY7M | 2021-2023 |
John Pescatore, K3TN | 2024- |
Contest sponsorship
The magazine organizes, adjudicates, and publishes the results of two series of annual radio competitions, the North American QSO Party (NAQP) and the North American Sprint. The NAQP has three separate events (for
Citations
- ^ United States Postal Service (2007). PS Form 3526: Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation. Published in National Contest Journal, Vol. 35, No. 6. November/December, 2007. p. 44.
- ^ a b c Luetzelschwab, Carl K9LA, ed. "We Hear from Former NCJ Editors". National Contest Journal., vol. 35, no. 5, Sep/Oct, 2007, p.14.
- ^ NCJ Contests. National Contest Journal official web site. Retrieved Sep. 26, 2007.