First thanks to Stan for great tool!!!!
24 hours for RDXC is perfekt format!
48 hours will slow down the contest for a lot!
There are allready to many 48 hours contest end of feb
and begining of the march, there will be no enough time
for serius SOAB entrant to recover.
For example:
in my case i need to travel to my contest QTH, for 48h contest
it took me at least 4 days for traveling and contest
and whole next week to recover.....in compare to 24 h contest
4 days are more or less enough to back into "normal life"!
Not much better entering Multi Op categories staying whole
weekend on the station!
Comparing RDXC with WPX is unfair......even with SSB part!
Right way will be probably to mix CW and SSB and to take out 24 hours
and to compare it with RDXC (if condx are same)!
There is no doubt that RDXC is one of the best contest we have, only
what i am missing are open logs like in WPX or CQ WW.
I hope that RDX CCwill keep with such good work and there will be
no change to 48 hours!
73s
Braco E77DX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stan" <ua1out@yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Russian DX Contest analysis available
> Hi Randy,
>
> I absolutely agree with you. It is a bit unfair to compare conditions in
> May 2010 to what RDXC had this year. Even with those unfavorable condx WPX
> would have almost twice as many QSOs in total than RDXC. With 15 and
> hopefully 10 open in the end of May I am sure rates are expected to be
> significantly higher compared to last year.
>
> I am also sure that if RDXC format changes to 48 hours (which by the way
> is unlikely to happen soon) it's top rates will not be as high as what we
> see now. After all, 24 hours of activity presents a rather condensed rate
> overall compared to a 48 hour event.
>
> I am personally really looking forward to WPX this month and very much
> hope that I will be in Ireland for the test and not traveling as it was
> during RDXC...
>
> 73!
>
> Stan
>
>
>> Love seeing statistics about contesting in any form. Thanks for doing
>> this!
>
>> Difficult to compare anything with WPX CW 2010. Conditions were the
>> worst
>> of all time last year. Plus, WPX in early summer is a very different
>> time
> from RDXC in the late winter.
>
>> We are hoping for much better conditions in WPX CW this month. May 28-29
>
>> Randy Thompson, K5ZD
>> Director - CQ WPX Contest
>
>> email: k5zd@cqwpx.com
>> web: www.cqwpx.com
>> facebook: www.facebook.com/cqwpx
>
> --- On Tue, 10/5/11, Stan <ua1out@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Stan <ua1out@yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Russian DX Contest analysis available
>> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
>> Date: Tuesday, 10 May, 2011, 22:31
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday, contest rate analyser was given access to
>> rdxc.org logs storage. It just finished parsing RDXC logs
>> and results are now available here:
>>
>> http://www.ei6dx.com/cqww-contest-analysis/cqww-activity-analyzer/
>>
>> They show some interesting trends.
>>
>> Clearly RDXC is gaining a lot of popularity and it is now
>> one of the top 3 WW contests. For example, combined CW and
>> SSB rates of RDXC are higher than those of CQWPX CW for same
>> hours in 2010. This means that bands are livelier during
>> RDXC hours. If we consider European activity we see that
>> European RDXC CW rates are higher than those of CQWPX CW for
>> the same period particularly on low bands, which is pretty
>> amazing. Asiatic activity in CW is higher by a considerable
>> margin and is almost as high as in some of the CQWW CW tests
>> (2007 for example). Despite the fact that North American
>> activity is a lot lower in RDXC, I think it is time for RDXC
>> committee to consider a 48 hour event.
>>
>> I would like to thank Harry RA3AUU and Vlad RW1AC for
>> providing temporary access to remote repositories and for
>> allowing the results to be published.
>>
>> vy 73 de Stan
>> www.ei6dx.com
>>
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