[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW stats -- question

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 08:30 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:

>Last year I had 8 hours over 100 QSOs -- 3 on 10, 3 on 15 and 2 on 
>20.  This year I had 11 -- 5 on 10, 3 on 15 and 3 on 20.  Had my best and 
>third best running hours ever in the ARRL CW, operated virtually the same 
>total time, but finished with 11.5 percent fewer QSOs  and 3.4 percent 
>fewer mults.
>
>What does this mean?

Good question, Pete.  My theory is band compression.  When fewer bands are 
open simultaneously, there will be more people on each open band tuning 
around.  When fewer bands are *expected* to be open simultaneously, 
everyone will head towards the highest open band at the same time with the 
expectation that it won't be open again tomorrow or even an hour or two 
from now.

73 - Jim AD1C


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