Ed Muns, W0YK, named CQ RTTY Contest Director

Ed Muns, W0YK, of Los Gatos, California, has been named Director of 'CQ' magazine's radioteletype (RTTY) contests.

'CQ' sponsors the world's two most popular annual RTTY
competitions, the CQ World Wide RTTY WPX Contest each February and the CQ World Wide RTTY DX Contest every September.

Muns succeeds Glenn Vinson, W6OTC, who has been CQ's RTTY Contest Director since 2000, and who guided the events to their current levels of popularity. The number of logs submitted for the RTTY DX contest has tripled in the past eight years despite declining sunspots throughout the period. "I am glad to have had this opportunity to help promote RTTY contesting," says Vinson, adding that Muns has already been working closely with other members of the CQ RTTY Contest Committee, software authors and other CQ contest directors to assure a smooth transition.

"I feel very confident that these contests will continue to gain strength year over year."
Ed Muns was first licensed in 1962, and has been contesting since the 1970s. He has been active in RTTY contesting since 2004 and very quickly set two world records in operations from Aruba. He has also been the NA RTTY Sprint contest manager since 2005. Professionally, Ed is retired
from a career as an engineering executive for Hewlett-Packard, and currently owns and operates a Pinot Noir vineyard in California that he started ten years ago.

Both Glenn and Ed point out that Glenn's original plan had been to transfer responsibility for the CQ RTTY contests to his co-director for the past several years, Paolo Cortese, I2UIY. However, Paolo unexpectedly became a Silent Key in October 2008. Ed stepped in to fill the void that was created by Paolo's passing.

"We thank Glenn for his many years of service to our RTTY contests, and his great success in building up their popularity," noted 'CQ' Editor Richard Moseson, W2VU, "and we welcome Ed to the CQ 'family' with thanks for his willingness to step up to the plate on short notice and take on this responsibility."