[CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

[Steve London]

Thanks for the data, Chris.

In the 24 hour RDXC, 9% operate full time (>23 hours).
In the 48 hour CQWW SSB (using KR2Q data), 11.9% operate 24 hours or more.

So, presented with a shorter contest, the percentage who choose to 
operate full time is actually less than the percentage who operate 24 or 
more hours in a 48 hour contest.

I fail to see how adding a 24 hour category to a 48 hour contest will 
encourage more people to operate even 24 hours.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 04/01/2013 01:19 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
> N2IC wrote: How about looking at the statistics for those major worldwide
> contests that are already 24 hours long, such as the IARU HF, and Russian DX
> ? What percentage of participants currently operate more than, say 22 hours
> ? I'm sure there is a reader of this list has access to that data. Are the
> "24 hour category" folks walking their talk ?
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> Hi Steve,
> in four RDXCs 11 to 15 percent of the SOAB operated 20 to 24 hours with up
> to 9 percent having 23:xx hours.
> See http://www.dl8mbs.de/40984/45289.html
> 73, Chris (DL8MBS)
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