> As you reduce the duration of the period over which
> you calculate the average, come closer to the reporting
> the instantaneous rate, which will always be higher than
> the average rate.
The instantaneous rate will fluctuate above and below the average. That
is why the average is the average.
There is also the method used by ct that I think has been ignored, that
is calculating the time taken to make the last N contacts and converting
that to a rate. The one disadvantage to this is it takes N contacts
before the calculation can be done, and it you take a break it takes N
contacts after the break for the rate to be valid again... but that
could be a problem with any averaging technique that doesn't recognize
off times.
David Robbins K1TTT
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