NCJ RTTY ARTICLE

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As to Ken's comments regarding W3LPL as the "Biggest and baddest contest
station in the World"  May I remind him and everyone else that W3LPL Placed
second to N2RM in the CQWW SSB Contest

I guess being the Biggest and Baddest isn't as good as being the Best!

>From CLC      SOUK1     Lyn Chapple" <gbbvjgvj at ibmmail.com  Thu Nov 16 12:33:09 1995
From: CLC      SOUK1     Lyn Chapple" <gbbvjgvj at ibmmail.com (CLC      SOUK1     Lyn Chapple)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 07:33:09 EST
Subject: QSL Return Rates

  
  
          > Please don't do this to the JAs. QSLing is part of the "courtesy" that
          >is very important to their culture.
  
          Horsefeathers!!
  
          Earlier this year I did an analysis of my logs for QSL return
          rates by country. The analysis covered a 10 year period with
          the majority of the cards being sent via the buro. There would
          also be a large number of cards resulting from the major CONTESTs.
          The numbers of cards sent to each country reflect my interest in
          particular awards etc. The results are intersting and surprised me in
          that my perceptions of "good" and "bad" QSling countries were not
          always correct.
          In the analysis I excluded cards sent in the last twelve months
          so as to allow time for buro returns.
          Some extracts are:
  
          Country             Cards          Cards          percent
                              Sent           Rcvd           Rcvd
          Luxembourg          10             10             100%
          Switzerland         76             74             97.4%
          Belgium             18             16             88.9%
          Netherlands         20             17             85.0%
          England             73             59             80.8%
          Austria             15             12             80.0%
          Germany             58             45             77.6%
          Italy               313            232            74.1%
          Paraguay            15             11             73.3%
          Portugal            37             26             70.3%
          South Korea         16             11             68.8%
          France              172            118            68.6%
          Spain               158            106            67.1%
          Norway              37             24             64.9%
          Finland             101            63             62.4%
          Greece              31             19             61.3%
          Israel              25             15             60.0%
          Turkey              12             7              58.3%
          Poland              35             20             57.1%
          Canada              130            71             54.6%
          Brazil              60             32             53.3%
          Sweden              56             29             51.8%
          USA                 1661           859            51.7%*****
          South Africa        19             9              47.4%
          Australia           48             22             45.8%
          Venezuela           29             13             44.8%
          Argentina           40             17             42.5%
          Kuwait              10             4              40.0%
          Yugoslavia          75             29             38.7%
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
          Puerto Rico         13             5              38.5%
          Hungary             51             18             35.3%
          Japan               162            56             34.6%*******
          Indonesia           26             9              34.6%
          Cyprus              21             7              33.3%
          Bulgaria            27             8              29.6%
          Romania             25             7              28.0%
  
          The Russian republics varied from 58.3% (Kalinin) to 18% (Armenia)
          with the average of around 45%.
  
          Clearly from my experiences at least Luxembourg and Switzerland
          win the prize with the USA being nothing special as QSLs
          ranking similarly with Brazil. Japan is abysmal, comparing with the
          Eastern European countries and worse that most of the Russian
          republics.
  
          If any body else has a similar analysis from a different part
          of the world I'd be very interested to see it.
  
          73, Lyn G4KBX