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

[Joe]

Wow,
So by your chart there, if I understand it correctly. That the most 
people only operate between 2 and 8 hours? Is that Correct?

Joe WB9SBD
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On 3/25/2013 2:53 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> 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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