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 difficult even for
the casual op.
The beauty of packet from Colorado is having the east coast spot stuff that
we can't hear or work yet. I am sure they appreciate us spotting the
Pacific and Asia for them.
The other question to ask is what mults did you work from those spots? Did
the elusive VE8 or Yukon wander by after seeing the spot?
I wonder how many self spots include a plea for certain mults.
Mike
W0MU
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From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of CT1BOH - José Carlos
Cardoso Nunes
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:23 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Does packet spotting really helps rate that much????
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 to DX Summit Spot Database Search page and searched for P40E packets
spots during the 2003 CQWW CW Contest http://oh2w.kolumbus.com/dxs/qin.html
Then I went to my CQWW CW 2003 P40E log and looked how many minutes it took
me to work 30 stations before being spotted and how many minutes it took me
to work 30 stations after the packet spot. From that I take a QSO rate.
Here is the result during the first day of the contest
the fields below are:
Hour
Minute
Time to work 30 stations before packet spot Time to work 30 stations after
packet spot QSO/Rate before packet spot QSO/Rate after packet spot
Of the 34 packet spots I analysed, only 21 times (62%) my rate went higher
than before packet spot.
Not really what I expected....
It seems packet spots don't really have an effect on the overall rate, at
least for P40E...
0 23 0:08 0:10 225 180
0 49 0:09 0:08 200 225
1 2 0:10 0:06 180 300
1 25 0:07 0:10 257 180
2 51 0:10 0:09 180 200
3 9 0:09 0:11 200 164
3 51 0:09 0:09 200 200
4 24 0:11 0:08 164 225
5 11 0:13 0:10 138 180
5 59 0:11 0:12 164 150
6 21 0:13 0:07 138 257
6 38 0:12 0:12 150 150
6 52 0:11 0:10 164 180
7 2 0:11 0:09 164 200
7 21 0:11 0:13 164 138
8 12 0:19 0:10 95 180
9 10 0:10 0:11 180 164
9 35 0:16 0:12 113 150
10 0 0:15 0:19 120 95
10 26 0:16 0:09 113 200
11 19 0:09 0:08 200 225
11 48 0:08 0:09 225 200
12 14 0:10 0:09 180 200
13 15 0:07 0:07 257 257
14 15 0:09 0:06 200 300
15 34 0:12 0:06 150 300
16 30 0:08 0:06 225 300
17 8 0:10 0:08 180 225
18 26 0:08 0:05 225 360
19 27 0:09 0:06 200 300
20 25 0:11 0:14 164 129
21 9 0:09 0:11 200 164
22 36 0:15 0:14 120 129
23 28 0:11 0:10 164 180
73's
José CT1BOH
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