Interestingly, if you go back to 1989 - when packet was in its infancy and was
NOT really used in the domestic environment, the SSB scores were as high as
they are today! W7WA won the 1989 SS Phone leg with 2,354 QSOs.
What is interesting is that CW winning log won with a VERY low QSO tally - N5KO
(when he was WN4KKN) won with 1180 QSOs. I don't know if there was a flare
that weekend, but that number is painfully low for a winning score.
73 Rich NN3W
On 02/24/12, Jack/W6NF wrote:
On 2/24/2012 7:45 AM, Ktfrog007@aol.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question for old time contesters. Before the Internet, packet
> radio, DX clusters and skimmers, what were typical CW and SSB contest running
> rates? I imagine they must have been much less than current ones.
>
> 73,
> Kermit, AB1J
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Can't say about the run rates "back in the day" but I am looking at the
SS results from 1964 and find these top scores:
CW: W4KFC, 155,955 points, 846 Qs, 74 mults (a sweep), 24 hours, power
category "A"
PHONE: K6EVR (W9WNV, op), 159, 980 points, 757 Qs, 74 mults, 24 hours,
power category "A"
That's and average of just over 35 Qs per hour for Vic and about 31.5
per hour for Don. One can't really infer max rates from just those
numbers but I would be surprised at anything much over 60 at the start
of the SS and slowing *way* down later. Maybe someone has old logs from
which real numbers could be derived.
One thing I forgot is the multiplier for low power (150 watts or less)
operation: 1.25 for CW and 1.5 for Phone. Very few stations running high
power with a vast majority of section winners at the "A" level. I sure
wish that scoring system would come back!
One thing that was very strange was looking at the list of winners and
the gear they used. For example, one station (K3DVS/3) took the EPA
Phone award running a Galaxy 300 and VE2AUV took QC Phone running a
NCX-3!!! Quite a mix of equipment in use and not as many S-lines as I
thought I remembered.
In looking at the list of winners I see a few calls you'll still run
into in contests, including K4BAI, W2VJN and K6VVA, to name a few.
I'm glad I kept a few of my old QST's!
--
Jack, W6NF
Silver Springs, NV
DM09ji
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