[CQ-Contest] Spots and Success in the WRTC - a little data for discussion

[Jorge Diez - CX6VM]

Here you have a XLS file with the % of SSB QSo´s

http://www.arrl.org/attachments/view/News/53255

73,
Jorge
CX6VM/CW5W

-----Mensaje original-----
De: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] En nombre de Kenneth E. Harker
Enviado el: Lunes, 19 de Julio de 2010 11:37 a.m.
Para: CQ Contest
Asunto: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spots and Success in the WRTC - a little data for
discussion

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 07:13:21AM -0600, Steve London wrote:
> A question that I have is...what were R32K, R31X, R36O, R34D, R37P, R39A
and 
> R39R doing differently that caused them to be infrequently picked up by a
skimmer ?

It would be useful to have the SSB v. CW QSO breakdowns by team as well.  
I suspect  R33M spent a lot more time on CW than R33A did.  I love seeing 
data like this!


> Pete Smith wrote:
> > The following table lists the contestants in WRTC by finish order and 
> > callsign, and then shows the number of spots recorded in the Reverse 
> > Beacon Network database.  Reverse beacons don't cheerlead or select 
> > which stations to spot.  You can draw your own conclusions.  Perhaps 
> > there is a statistician among us who can derive further enlightenment by

> > analyzing these numbers, together with others released by the
organizers.
> > 
> > Call 	Place 	 Spots
> > R32F 	1 	182
> > R33A 	2 	109
> > R33M 	3 	316
> > R39D 	4 	172
> > R34P 	5 	156
> > R32K 	6 	0
> > R32R 	7 	106
> > R31X 	8 	21
> > R37M 	9 	189
> > R36C 	10 	166
> > R33L 	11 	132
> > R38F 	12 	232
> > R33G 	13 	163
> > R31U 	14 	62
> > R34O 	15 	122
> > R36Y 	16 	59
> > R34W 	17 	197
> > R39M 	18 	222
> > R32C 	19 	115
> > R37L 	20 	139
> > R37Q 	21 	247
> > R34C 	22 	184
> > R36O 	23 	17
> > R38O 	24 	116
> > R31A 	25 	302
> > R36F 	26 	41
> > R38K 	27 	187
> > R38X 	28 	79
> > R31D 	29 	111
> > R34D 	30 	14
> > R32Z 	31 	252
> > R32O 	32 	111
> > R37A 	33 	184
> > R32W 	34 	142
> > R31N 	35 	140
> > R36Z 	36 	100
> > R38N 	37 	50
> > R36K 	38 	91
> > R38W 	39 	79
> > R37P 	40 	10
> > R39A 	41 	25
> > R37U 	42 	191
> > R34X 	43 	76
> > R39R 	44 	12
> > R34Z 	45 	133
> > R33U 	46 	96
> > R36W 	47 	152
> > R33Q 	48 	85
> > 
> > 
> > When I first saw this, I questioned how it was possible that a station 
> > could finish sixth and yet not be spotted even once, but the scientist 
> > on our team tells me it is not only possible, but statistically likely.

> > In any case, that's what the database says.
> > 
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