{"id":686564,"date":"2021-04-08T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686564"},"modified":"2021-04-08T12:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T16:04:00","slug":"traditional-amateur-radio-contesting-faces-a-demographic-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=686564","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Amateur Radio Contesting Faces a Demographic Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Howell, K4FMH, followed up his two-part <i>National Contest Journal<\/i> (<span><i><strong>NCJ<\/strong><\/i><\/span>) series, \u201cThe Demographics of Contesting,\u201d with a <span>post<\/span> to his Social Circuits blog, called \u201cLemmings over a Demographic Cliff?\u201d (His original articles appeared in the July\/August and September\/October 2020 issues of <i>NCJ<\/i>.) Howell points to data showing that radio contesters are older than the average ARRL member. Taking &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/traditional-amateur-radio-contesting-faces-a-demographic-cliff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Traditional Amateur Radio Contesting Faces a Demographic Cliff<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Howell, K4FMH, followed up his two-part National Contest Journal (NCJ) series, \u201cThe Demographics of Contesting,\u201d with a post to his Social Circuits blog, called \u201cLemmings over a Demographic Cliff?\u201d&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=686564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=686564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=686564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=686564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}