{"id":221,"date":"2020-03-27T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T22:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2021-06-28T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T17:49:50","slug":"randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx-contest-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx-contest-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Interim WPX Contest Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From  <a href=\"http:\/\/cqnewsroom.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx.html\">http:\/\/cqnewsroom.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx.html<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Hicksville, NY \u2013 March 27, 2020) \u2013 Former CQ WPX Contest Director Randy Thompson, K5ZD, has been appointed interim director of the on-air competition following the resignation of Terry Zivney, N4TZ. Zivney had been contest director for the past seven years. The WPX Contest is amateur radio&#8217;s second-most popular competition, with only the CQ World Wide DX Contest drawing more entrants each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We thank Terry for his excellent work in administering and promoting the WPX Contest,&#8221; said CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, &#8220;and we will miss him as part of our contesting staff. I am looking forward to working closely again with Randy, who has been part of our contest leadership team for many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson, who has also previously served as director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest, is a long-time CQ Contest Committee member and administrator of the various CQ contesting websites. Experienced contesters who are interested in &#8220;giving back&#8221; to the contesting community by administering a major contest are invited to apply for the position of WPX Contest Director. Inquiries and applications should be directed to CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU, via e-mail to &lt;<a href=\"mailto:w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com\">w2vu@cq-amateur-radio.com<\/a>>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From http:\/\/cqnewsroom.blogspot.com\/2020\/03\/randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx.html (Hicksville, NY \u2013 March 27, 2020) \u2013 Former CQ WPX Contest Director Randy Thompson, K5ZD, has been appointed interim director of the on-air competition following the resignation of Terry Zivney, N4TZ. Zivney had been contest director for the past seven years. The WPX Contest is amateur radio&#8217;s second-most popular competition, with only the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/randy-thompson-k5zd-named-interim-wpx-contest-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Randy Thompson, K5ZD, Named Interim WPX Contest Director<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7uaXG-3z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cqwpx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}