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

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?
From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:43:32 -0700
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I have been arguing here for a 24 hour category, but I am also strongly opposed to "best 24 out of 48" instead of simply 24 hours max. "Best 24 out of 48" defeats the entire intent ... it takes away the strategic requirement to choose your operating hours wisely, and as Joe says it turns it back to an iron butt contest anyway.

Dave   AB7E



On 4/3/2013 6:26 AM, Joe wrote:
That I do not like tho!

Take the "Best" is defeating the purpose of the shorter 24 hours idea. If it is the best it forces the station to again operate the full 48 because who knows the conditions may explode sunday,

This again makes it a big gun iron butt contest and not a true 48 hr contest.

Joe WB9SBD
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On 4/2/2013 8:18 AM, RT Clay wrote:
I am one person who might operate more if there was a 24 hour category. Right now I only operate Sprint, NAQP, IARU, and SS because those I can fit in my
schedule.

I would suggest that anyone operating more than 24 hours be automatically entered in the 24 category- software could easily determine the "best" 24 hour period for those entrants. If the 24 hour period was chosen that way, operating MORE than 24 hours would be the best way to get a top 24-hour score. So I doubt
it would decrease much the time people put it.

With access to contest logs (with bad qsos removed by log checkers) it would be
easy for a 3rd party to calculate the best 24 hours scores.

Tor
N4OGW/5





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From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
To: Christian Schneider <prickler.schneider@t-online.de>
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Sent: Mon, April 1, 2013 7:16:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

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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