I suspect that the magnitude of the difference probably depends on the
contest. Quite a few years ago, N6ZFO, whose job in pharama development
included lots of statistics, did an analysis for NCCC saying that 1 dB
was good for 2.6% in ARRL Sweepstakes.
Pretty good agreement with your work.
73, Jim K9YC
On Fri,2/26/2016 2:46 PM, Steve London wrote:
This subject has recently come up on the Topband reflector.
I look at this from the question: "How much is a dB worth to my score
in a DX contest ?"
Information about N1UR's contest performance presents a possible way
to answer this question. For years, Ed operated SOAB low power. He
recently changed to high power. Ed is an excellent operator. I believe
he is getting the most out of his station and skills, whether
operating low or high power. You can't look at his absolute change in
score, because conditions are so different from year-to-year. However,
you can compare his score each year as a percentage of the top high
power USA score that same year.
I'm no statistician, but did some back-of-the-envelope calculations. I
came up with something in the range of 2.7% to 3.0% increase in score
per dB. I'll leave it to smarter people to refine my calculations.
73,
Steve, N2IC
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