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Why do we do contests?

Subject: Why do we do contests?
From: mraz@maverick.aud.alcatel.com (Kris Mraz)
Date: Fri Dec 11 08:58:59 1992
>Why do you do contests?
  
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Here's some related questions that would be interesting:

How old is the contester? How long has (s)he been a ham? What license class?
These answers would help profile the contester.

On a related subject, has anyone ever analyzed Sweepstakes logs to determine
how many new hams participate and how that participation increases/decreases
over the years? Since your year of license is part of the exchange it should
be easy to write a program to do the analysis on computer logs. For example:

  (number of hams licensed in 92)/(total qso's) = percentage of new hams
                                                  participating.

  (number of hams licensed in 91)/(total qso's) = percentage of hams 
                                                  participating 1 yr later.

   etc.

Just food for thought.


Kris, AA5UO                     '~ ~`
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