Kris, AA5UO writes:
>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:
I thought about this during fone SS. I didn't opereate much and so probably
don't have a very statistically valid sample but *ALMOST ALL* checks received
predated mine (73). Here I am a few months from OTC and SS makes me feel like
a young squirt.
A potential problem with the analysis would be guest operators, operators at
multiops and operators at club stations where the check sent belongs to the
station and not the operator. I suppose you could exclude all the above from
an analysis by computer. My straw poll obviously didn't.
73, -SEP
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