Bill-
My apologies...something stuck in my mind about the 49 second cq call
then I reread and saw what you added.
A call like you suggested will time out to be roughly 5 seconds if you
repeat your callsign twice. Pretty close to your 49~50 seconds if you
repeat 10 times as you indicated.
Now assume a QSO looks like:
CQ (5 sec)
Answer with call sign twice (4 sec)
Exchange x2 (4 sec per if exchange and call sent once 8 sec total)
QRZ (3 sec if call sent 1, 4 sec pause for listen...7 total)
Quick Q is 24 sec...30 to 35 or more if items are repeated.
If an op can hold a 50 Q per hour rate, this means you use 1200
seconds on cq/q's if you keep a 1:1 if the Q is perfect (24 sec).
Repeated exchanges or calls can add drastically to the time. Order of
5-10 seconds or more....
If you assume 30 sec's per Q average, and 60 Q's per hour, that leaves
3600 -1800 sec/hr or roughly 1800 seconds. 1800 seconds/9 seconds (CQ
call and listen before repeat for 4sec) is 200 Q's per hour plus the
60 CQs made per Q...
If you go to 100 Q's per hour and 30 sec average, you use 3000 seconds
and have 600 seconds left or about 67 CQ calls per hour with a 4 sec
listen window plus the 100 CQs made with Q's.
2k is reasonable...
Next time, I'll read better.
73-
Chris
kb5u
On 7/2/07, Chris <frisco.kid@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bill-
>
> Not to be picky but your 2k number totally unreasonable unless I
> missed a new math class.
>
> 60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in 1 hour = 3600 seconds per hour
>
> 3600 seconds / 49 seconds for each CQ call = 73.47 CQ calls per hour
>
> In your example:
>
> 2000 CQ calls / 24 hours of contest = 83.33 CQ calls per hour.
>
> Since you can't change 60min in 1 hour, the conceivable max number of
> CQ calls you can make is 1763, assuming you do not make any Q's which
> is contrary to the point of the contest...
>
> I think your .333 seconds might squeeze out 2-3 minutes but not near 11min.
>
> 73-
> Chris
> kb5u
>
>
>
> On 7/2/07, Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net> wrote:
> > The title for this weekend's RTTY contest is the DL-DX contest. I
> > believe however, that the hyphen should not be used in your CQ macro
> > because it requires a FIGS character before the hyphen and a LTRS
> > character after, using an extra 167 milliseconds each, or about 1/3 of
> > a second for both.
> >
> > Instead of
> >
> > CQ DL-DX DE <YOURCALL>
> >
> > use
> >
> > CQ DL DX DE <YOURCALL>
> >
> > It looks like the same number of characters, but it is not. There is a
> > non-printing FiGS character before the hyphen and a LTRS
> > character after. Those milliseconds add up. If you call CQ 2000 times
> > during the 24-hour contest (a not unreasonable number), you will save
> > over 11 minutes, enough to make a few more QSOs and trounce your
> > buddy across town and take first place! :-)
> >
> > If you're feeling a bit skeptical about this, try an experiment:
> >
> > Make a CQ macro with the hyphen and one without. Using a stopwatch or
> > some kind of timer. send the macro ten times in a row with no breaks
> > and time how long it takes, then divide by ten to see how long one CQ
> > takes. Doing it ten times gives better accuracy than trying to time a
> > single CQ. Then do it again with the other macro. You will find the
> > hyphened macro takes almost exactly three seconds longer to sent it
> > ten times, or .333 seconds per CQ. In my case, the non-hyphenated
> > macro took 49 seconds for ten and the hyphenated one took 52, a
> > difference of three. Use a timer with tenths of a second if you have
> > one.
> >
> > Good luck to all, see you in the contest.
> >
> > 73, Bill W6WRT
> > Who finally has his 20/15/10 meter beam up! Yay!!!
> >
> > p.s. Those of you not members of the RTTY reflector are cordially
> > invited to join. Go to www.contesting.com, scroll down on the left to
> > RTTY, click and follow the instructions. You'll find a great bunch of
> > knowledgeable, helpful ops there.
> >
> >
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