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

[David Gilbert]

Great info, Doug.

That's only the results from the people who submitted logs, right? I'd 
bet that the curve is skewed even more toward fewer hours for the people 
who did not submit a log, and I wonder how many of those would be more 
inclined to submit a log if categories existed for fewer hours.   I 
suspect quite a few.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 3/25/2013 4:07 AM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
> 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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