I also analyzed AA contest numbers recieved.
Made 1158 contacts included 266 US's and 876 EU's.
ALL 1158Q USA 266Q EU 876Q
Age grp N % N % N %
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00 : 9 0.8% 0 0.0% 9 1.0%
- 9: 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 0 0.0%
10-19: 21 1.8% 2 0.8% 19 2.2%
20-29: 68 5.9% 1 0.4% 67 7.6%
30-39: 172 14.9% 19 7.1% 151 17.2%
40-49: 242 20.9% 47 17.7% 192 21.9%
50-59: 331 28.6% 108 40.6% 217 24.8%
60-69: 188 16.2% 46 17.3% 139 15.9%
70-79: 94 8.1% 23 8.6% 70 8.0%
80-89: 30 2.6% 18 6.8% 12 1.4%
90- : 3 0.3% 2 0.8% 0 0.0%
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average: 51.0 56.5 49.2
I found the distribution shapes are different between USA, Europe and Asia.
About 10% of all are under 30 in Europe, but only 1.2% in US.
Three quarters of contesters are over 50 in US, while a half in EU.
Old timers are very active. I don't know so many contesters over 80 in Japan.
I suppose JA1AA is 80 years old..
Sei, JF1SQC
GW3NJW wrote:
>
> Further to the recent discussion on this subject, I thought I would take a
> look at the distribution of ages of Asian contesters, from my small log;
> here are the results. These are substantially Japanese and Asiatic Russian
> stations.
>
> Age group Nr. of stations
> _________ ______________
> 11-15 1
> 16-20 1
> 21-25 6
> 26-30 14
> 31-35 34
> 36-40 27
> 41-45 37
> 46-50 10
> 51-55 10
> 56-60 5
> 61-65 4
> 66-70 1
> 71-75 1
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