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

[George Fremin III]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 11:07:11AM +0000, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
> 
> I don't know the algorithm used to calculate non-operating hours.

That would seem to be an important thing to know.

Thinking back to the K1EA CT logging program I seem to recall you
could use a command that would change the 'offtime' window that
the program looked at to caculate 'offtime'  Say if you did not
make a contact for 30 mins it would count that as offtime but 
if you only went 29 mins without a contact that would not
be counted as offtime.  

If the window is 5 minutes I can see how it would over count
many casual / small stations offtime as they can go a long time
between contacts.


> 
> 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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