[CQ-Contest] Why I Won't Be in CQWW CW This Year

[Jim Reisert]

It's probably significantly less than 40%.  You'll work more of the same
stations if they're closer to you, i.e. it's easier to work K0RF on 6 bands
than UA0RF.  So of those two pointers, many more will be with the same station
than the 3 pointers.  This makes the ratio of 2-point STATIONS to non-2-point
STATIONS less than 40%.

- Jim

--- Barry  <w2up at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's an armchair analysis of CQWW CW participation by 
> location:
> I looked at scores from reported on 3830 last year. I wanted to find 
> a high score in zone 8 (for easy analysis of 2 point (mostly US) vs. 
> 3 point locations) for analysis, and picked 8P9Z. If you do the math 
> to figure out the average worth of each QSO (score divided by 
> mults), it was about 2.6 points.
> Assuming most of the 2 pointers came from the US, rather than 
> other Caribb (mostly US Dxpeditions anyway) and VE stations, 
> that means about 40% of 8P9Z's QSOs were with the US. Less 
> than half, but I wouldn't say "most" participants come from outside 
> the US.



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