[CQ-Contest] How many calls?

[Ford Peterson]

Thanks to Pete N4ZR showing me where to look, I was able to locate a
database and shamelessly dissect it.  I bulldoze pennies for a living so
this didn't take more than a couple of hours.

>
> Does anybody have a clue how many unique calls submitted logs for an ARRL
> sponsored contest in the year 2000?  Better yet, some demographics would
be
> great.  How about ARRL members vs non-members?  How about this data:
X,XXX
> submitted logs at least once; Y,YYY submitted at least 3 logs (contests);
> ZZZ entered every contest etc.  Which contests are popular and which were
> not?  Now do the same for the last 3 years.  I'd love to see the numbers.
>

Based on 2000 contests, the following appears to be the case...

Number of unique US calls submitting a log  8,476
Number of US logs                                   22,715

Number of unique US calls submitting multiple logs:

One         24      0.3%
Two    3,890   45.8%
Three  3,337   39.4%
Four   1,225   14.5%
Tot     8,476 100.0%

Source:  Masterall.dta file on K8CC's website.
Data file was dissected, sorted by call, and counted.  Assumption is K8CC
entered
all the data correctly for the logs submitted.  Data anomaly is that no call
appeared only
once.  Assumption was made that the first incidence was an index reference,
which was then
ignored for compilation purposes.  The other odd fact is that only 24 calls
appear to have
submitted only one log.  I just bulldoze the data.  You can interpret as
fit.

Ford-N0FP
ford at cmgate.com


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