[CQ-Contest] Casual contesters...

[Pete Smith]

I thought people might find the following weird factoid interesting.

I send QSLs for every unique DX QSO -- that is, for a given station, every
band-mode combination.  Since moving to my present QTH in December 1994,
I've had roughly 40,000 QSOs, of which at least 38,000 have been in
contests.  I was current on QSLing as of February 8 of this year, when I
sent some 3000 cards to the outgoing bureau.

I've been hoping that my annual box to the bureau would begin to taper off
somewhat, so after this year's ARRL DX CW I checked to see how many QSL
requirements that contest alone would generate.  To my surprise, out of
2899 valid QSOs, 1498 met my QSLing criteria!  Put another way, over half
my QSOs were with stations that I had never worked on that band and mode
before.

By contrast, in last years CQWWCW, out of 2667 QSOs, only 956 met the
uniqueness criteria.

Does this mean that the ARRL DX contest attracts more casual DX
participants, perhaps because of WAS? Or????

73, Pete N4ZR
Contesting is!

The World Contest Station Database
is waiting for your input at
http://www.qsl.net/n4zr 


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>From PY2NY - Vitor" <py2ny at arrl.net  Sun Mar 11 20:03:37 2001
From: PY2NY - Vitor" <py2ny at arrl.net (PY2NY - Vitor)
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:03:37 -0300
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ Toronto
Message-ID: <000801c0aa6a$3db807e0$6914d2c8 at vitor>



Hello Friends.
We will go to Toronto May 12. Would like to
change some private messages with DXers
and contesters, just to ask something about
the city and interest places. We will stay there
4 days, before to go to Dayton.
Any sugestion would be fine.=20
PY2NY (om) & PU2VYT (yl)
Vitor Luis Aidar dos Santos, PY2NY
Caixa Postal 204 - Jaboticabal, SP
14870-970 - Brasil
(16) 32021888 / (16) 97854218
py2ny at arrl.net / py2ny at geocities.com


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