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

kr2q at optimum.net kr2q at optimum.net
Mon Mar 25 07:07:11 EDT 2013


Toivo, ES2RR asked how many "iron men" there are. 

Here are the "iron man" results from a recent CQWW SSB contest.

First column (left) is hours operated (2 hours groups).  

The second column (middle) is number of entrants

The last column (right) is the percentage of those shown
(which is limited to SOAB entrants only, all power groups, assisted or not).

"0" in the first row means "too few QSOs over too many hours to calculate."

I don't know the algorithm used to calculate non-operating hours.

Hope the table below "lines up" OK 

de Doug KR2Q


0	22	0.4%
2	540	11.0%
4	664	13.5%
6	689	14.0%
8	527	10.7%
10	460	9.4%
12	388	7.9%
14	296	6.0%
16	233	4.7%
18	223	4.5%
20	132	2.7%
22	157	3.2%
24	107	2.2%
26	88	1.8%
28	80	1.6%
30	76	1.5%
32	53	1.1%
34	35	0.7%
36	30	0.6%
38	28	0.6%
40	28	0.6%
42	19	0.4%
44	22	0.4%
46	12	0.2%
48	8	0.2%
	4917	100.0%

~50% operate for 8 hours less.
~75% operate for < 15 hours.
~90% operate for < 24 hours.
~95% operate for < 30 hours.


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