[CQ-Contest] Contesting in QST -- A Better Idea (?)

Zack Widup w9sz at prairienet.org
Fri Jan 11 12:18:34 EST 2002



It would be interesting to know how many of those 160,000 members are
active on the air.  The 25,000 callsigns noted show these people ARE
active and on the air.  Same with the 10,000 contesters.

It would also be interesting to have a breakdown of how much radio
equipment different percentages of the 160,000 members have (e.g. 10% have
none, 25% have one rig and a dipole, etc.)

Zack W9SZ

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, w5gn wrote:

> 
> There are over 160,000 ARRL members.
> 
> There are 25,000 DXers
>  (maximum number of callsigns worked 
>   in all of the recent 80,000-90,000
>   QSO-count DXpeditions).
> 
> There are 10,000 Contesters 
>  (number of callsigns in CN8WW's 
>   25,000+QSOs in CW WW).
> 
> Counting QST pages for contests (announcements
> and scores) suggest contesters have been far better
> published (as a percentage of membership, even if 
> all 10,000 contesters were ARRL members), than has
> been the DX community.
> 
> Barry
> 


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