Toivo, ES2RR asked how many "iron men" there are. Here are the "iron man" results from a recent CQWW SSB contest. First column (left) is hours operated (2 hours groups). The second column (middle) is
Great info, Doug. That's only the results from the people who submitted logs, right? I'd bet that the curve is skewed even more toward fewer hours for the people who did not submit a log, and I wonde
That would seem to be an important thing to know. Thinking back to the K1EA CT logging program I seem to recall you could use a command that would change the 'offtime' window that the program looked
It would be interesting to know whether there is some maximum number of hours (for single operators only) that would cause many of those who play around for 20-30 hours to go all in. How many don't g
Wow, So by your chart there, if I understand it correctly. That the most people only operate between 2 and 8 hours? Is that Correct? Joe WB9SBD Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:16:20 -0400
How many don't give it a full effort because they can't go 46 but would make the attempt to go 40, for example? I wouldn't recommend less than about 40 or 42 max but would think it might be a positiv
I only did (almost) full-time when cndx were good and I was in the mood to try to win the category. If the contest was 36h, I surely would have put more full-time efforts into it. Barry W2UP How many
Really? I find it hard to believe that so few do the whole 48 hours. Now today of course I could never ever do this. But when I was young, ( a long time ago) I was in my teens when I did this. MY CQW
I created graphs from the CW and SSB tables to help visualize the numbers. You can download or view the PDF from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h1opm1ye9qo6lxy/fQ8E5yQlDQ What surprised me was the
Seriously now ... how many HF ham radio operators, much less contesters, do you think are in their teens any more? Any pictures taken at Dayton in the last decade are downright scary. 73, Dave AB7E N
Hi, small analogy: A car dealer sells a 48k $ model. Unfortunately statistics and customer behaviour show that 90 percent of the customers only invest up to 26k $ for a car, seemingly as they cannot
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:05:02 -0400
Seriously now ... how many HF ham radio operators, much less contesters, do you think are in their teens any more? Any pictures taken at Dayton in the last decade are downright scary. 73, Dave AB7E Y
I don't think there would be many. Most of the 24 hour people are people like me who have a 24 hour station - good enough to have fun in the good hours, and to work the easy multipliers on the low ba
This thread comes around at least every year. Most of the respondents that say they would operate more if yada yada was the max hours are truly kidding themselves. The majority of casual contesters e
In the USA: As a volunteer firefighter we are having more and more trouble attracting new recruits and the ones we have are not able to volunteer as much as in the past. Employers while sympathetic t
If you want to win, place or show in a contest, a long contest is your friend. Except for one of us, there is an op out there that can beat us. If he has to go into work on Saturday morning, you migh
I suspect a "24 Hour" category would show very positive numbers initially. I'm doubtful there would be this sudden surge of "Casual Joe" type ops (they typically get on when they get on) but maybe a
I guess only .2 percent of contesters love contesting? This is the percent that operated 48 hrs in the CQ WW. We get to a whopping 2 percent by going to 40 hours. 4000 logs is 80 people. I guess we s
Hey, I can only put in about 37 hours. I think therefore we should have a 36 hour category :-) N2TK, Tony I suspect a "24 Hour" category would show very positive numbers initially. I'm doubtful there
Cause that sounds like so much fun? I like contesting because I find it enjoyable, but I don't find trying to stay awake for the majority of 48 hours fun at all. It's painful at best and leaves me fe