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Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

To: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Reply-to: n2ic@arrl.net
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:51:09 -0600
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Thanks for the data, Chris.

In the 24 hour RDXC, 9% operate full time (>23 hours).
In the 48 hour CQWW SSB (using KR2Q data), 11.9% operate 24 hours or more.

So, presented with a shorter contest, the percentage who choose to operate full time is actually less than the percentage who operate 24 or more hours in a 48 hour contest.

I fail to see how adding a 24 hour category to a 48 hour contest will encourage more people to operate even 24 hours.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 04/01/2013 01:19 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
N2IC wrote: How about looking at the statistics for those major worldwide
contests that are already 24 hours long, such as the IARU HF, and Russian DX
? What percentage of participants currently operate more than, say 22 hours
? I'm sure there is a reader of this list has access to that data. Are the
"24 hour category" folks walking their talk ?
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Hi Steve,
in four RDXCs 11 to 15 percent of the SOAB operated 20 to 24 hours with up
to 9 percent having 23:xx hours.
See http://www.dl8mbs.de/40984/45289.html
73, Chris (DL8MBS)


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