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

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

I created graphs from the CW and SSB tables to help visualize the 
numbers. You can download or view the PDF from here:  
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h1opm1ye9qo6lxy/fQ8E5yQlDQ  What surprised me 
was the CW logs show a longer 'persistence' in the operating chair. 
Although there are more SSB logs turned in, they 'give up' sooner.

What would be interesting is a graph of the number of QSOs logged on a 
per-minute timeline. If the "master" log were available for analysis, 
all kinds of interesting views could be created in chart form.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

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On 3/26/2013 12:42 PM, George Fremin III wrote:
> 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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