Author: CT1BOH - José Carlos Cardoso Nunes <ct1boh@sapo.pt>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:23:25 +0100
With all the e-mails and the debate regarding Self-spotting, I was curious just what really is the impact of packet spots in a Contest DX Pedition rate. Take a look at this small exercise... I went t
Jose, What band was this taken from. Did you look at 40 or 80 or even 160? I would expect high rates on the high bands most of the time anyway. Finding the big gun expeditions is usually not all that
Jose, Using your data I calculate that the average run rate before a spot was 176 Q/hr and after a spot the average rate was 205 Q/hr. Your data suggests that spots increased the average rate by 29 Q
If packet spotting wouldn't help, then why would so many people try to spot themselves? Yuri VE3DZ -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002 now on profes
VE5ZX's analysis of CT1BOH's example seems to indicate that spotting did help, although perhaps not as much as one might expect. It goes without saying that Jose's example from P40 is just one small
If packet spotting didn't help, then why would so many people *care* about people spotting themselves? Jeff K8ND -- The world's top contesters battle it out in Finland! THE OFFICIAL FILM of WRTC 2002
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:58:15 -0500
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:23:25PM +0100, CT1BOH - José Carlos Cardoso Nunes wrote: I've seen several of these attempts to quantify how much packet spotting helps or does not help a contest st
Jose, there are some variables to consider like how many p40 there where at the time operating, also your precense in the band ,signal strenght etc, amount of qsos already done etc.. Still 62% is pre