While we were talking about spotters who only made one spot in the whole
contest there was a mention of stations who spotted the same station
many times. Well for the ARRL DX SSB test I went through the database
and came up with these numbers:
Spotter Dx times spotted
HA5IW HA5KDQ 42
W3LPL VP5A 19
W3LPL 9A1A 19
KF2ZG ON7DR 18
N9US ZF2MM 17
W3LPL 9A7A 15
K6PFF UA9UHD 13
EA2TJ EA2URE 13
RK3QWA 5B4/R3CC 13
G0MOK NY6DX 12
HB9CQL HB9DSO 12
PA9JP PI4ZOD 12
UA9KGH RK9KWB 12
AE9B RX3RC 11
W3LPL RU1A 11
W3LPL OH5LF 11
WC4I VP5B 11
K4JA-4 9A7A 10
RM6A KC1XX 10
W3LPL ZF2MM 10
W3LPL LY7Z 10
W3LPL EA8ZS 10
W3LPL OM7M 10
W3LPL DL6RAI 10
W3LPL OH4A 10
What do these tell us??
First, W3LPL makes a lot of spots!
Second, stations that cq a lot get spotted a lot.
Third, stations that spot one other station a lot more than anyone else
stick out like a sore thumb.
To make the first line more interesting, consider the following:
HA5IW also spotted 2 other stations, once each
HA5KDQ was spotted by 5 other station, once each
For all of you who are now ready to lynch ha5iw, and are wondering who
in the world ha5kdq is... note that all those spots were on vhf or uhf
bands, apparently in some European vhf/uhf contest. (same for the
groups of spots for ea2ure, hb9dso, and pi4zod)
Which brings up the fourth point... you can prove anything with
statistics taken out of context.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
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