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[WriteLog] a more realistic contest Duty Cycle

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Subject: [WriteLog] a more realistic contest Duty Cycle
From: FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com (FireBrick)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:44:08 -0500
I made up a couple buffers in MMTTY that would be representative of actual
contest exchanges. I tried them into a dummy load attempting to simulate
normal time sequences.
I think my listening segments during cq's may be a bit longer than most
people due to my inadequate antennas and the need to listen a bit harder.
I'll leave the math calculations of the exact time sequence/duty cycles to
someone better than I but it looks to be approximately 50% +/-.

But to my non-analytical eye it appears that from the start of first
transmission to the end of the last transmission was almost one minute with
a duration of 27 seconds total transmitting time.

I concede that this would be best case scenarios.


<020911 13:26:59 TX>
CQ CONTEST DE W9OL BK
<020911 13:27:08 RX>
9 seconds

<020911 13:27:17 TX>
P5/4L4FN TU 599-001 P5/4L4FN BK
<020911 13:27:25 RX>
8 seconds

<020911 13:27:31 TX>
R TU DE W9OL QRZ
<020911 13:27:36 RX>
5 seconds

<020911 13:27:46 TX>
CQ CONTEST DE W9OL BK
<020911 13:27:51 RX>
5 seconds

DE
C


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w9ol@billnjudy.com
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