Interesting question. Of course, we all "know" that popularity has been
increasing over the years.
And there is some variation proportional to the sunspot cycle. But here is the
compiled data.
My approach is that Multi-Multi's are a good group to utilize for this analysis.
They work as much as as they can, on all bands, all the time, throughout the
contest.
Here is a table for USA. I hope it displays OK. I have also graphed this
file. The trend line
formula is y=189x + 211.28. Keep this in mind when comparing to my next post
for EU M/M.
If you would like a copy of the Excel file (v2010) with graphics, just drop me
a note and I'll
email it back to you.
All data was taken from CQWW.com (public availability), as per Randy's post.
Conclusion: For USA entrants, there are more logs submitted per year and the
number of
QSO available to USA continues to increase per year. Therefore, contesting
continues to
be more popular (broad trend) in the USA. Stats are for SSB entries.
de Doug KR2Q
Year Q's
1959 190
1960 498
1961 444
1962 673
1963 930
1964 1,084
1965 1,445
1966 2,587
1967 3,045
1968 3,094
1969 3,490
1970 3,071
1971 4,061
1972 1,662
1973 3,261
1974 2,397
1975 3,578
1976 3,602
1977 4,391
1978 4,530
1979 6,079
1980 4,906
1981 5,124
1982 4,371
1983 3,933
1984 3,752
1985 5,171
1986 5,216
1987 4,221
1988 6,477
1989 6,061
1990 7,321
1991 5,465
1992 7,010
1993 6,533
1994 4,242
1995 5,642
1996 5,299
1997 6,496
1998 6,652
1999 10,194
2000 8,575
2001 9,593
2002 8,033
2003 7,637
2004 8,256
2005 7,920
2006 7,257
2007 8,344
2008 8,052
2009 9,033
2010 9,143
2011 13,306
2012 13,393
2013 14,180
2014 12,549
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