I recieved some private mail from KQ2M who made some very good points
about the pileup type competitions. It might be a very good measure of
one particular skill that goes in to making a great contest operator.
N5TJ/K1TO did with the pile up competition.
I suspect sleep deprevation and the ability to perform without sleep is
also another attribute. Maybe the OHs will consider keeping the
competitors awake for 48 hours before giving a pileup competition? I
suspect this would tweak iron-man N6TJ's interest. :)
73
Bill, W4AN
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ward Silver wrote:
> > If you want to see who can race a car the fastest, you put them in a car
> > and race. You don't put them in front of a video game.
>
> Yeah, but if you want to see which 16-year-olds have learned the basics,
> you don't put 'em behind the wheel and out on the street, either :-)
>
> Your points are well-taken. The real questions are (putting on my lab
> coat and looking over the tops of my glasses in my best Real Scientist
> imitation) one, whether there is a strong and statistically significant
> correlation between pileup competition ability and contest score, and two,
> whether there are few false-positives and negatives. (i.e. - high-scoring
> pileup competition enthusiasts that do poorly on the air and vice versa)
>
> We certainly have a large sample population of contesters and a growing
> population of those that have been subjected to pileup competition torment
> over the years under reasonably similar circumstances. Armed with a
> spreadsheet and large amount of free time, one might have a chance at
> answering those questions.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
>
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