[CQ-Contest] CQ WW 2103 Operating Stats

[Mark Sullivan]

I was wondering what the average operating time in the CQ WW 2013 CW and 
SSB contests were for single operators. But although the operating hours 
were listed in the results database you could not sort on it.

Therefore I dropped the Single Operator All Band and Single Op All Band 
Assisted HP/LP/QRP results into a spreadsheet to figure it out.  I left 
out the single band entrants as I felt it would distort the figures 
since many would have to stop when the propagation did.

So in case anyone else is interested (I hope this renders ok)...

Average hours
        Single Op   Single Op(A)  Overall
CW       17.4        18.1          17.8
SSB      14.7        13.8          14.2

Also 73% of operators operated for less than 24 hours in the CW contest 
with 79% doing so in the SSB contest. I did a break down on 6 hourly 
intervals:

CW 2013
Hours     SO     SO(A)     Overall
42-48    2.8%    3.2%       3.0%
36-41.9  4.0%    6.3%       5.0%
30-35.9  6.1%    8.2%       7.0%
24-29.9  11.5%   12.3%      11.8%
18-23.9  17.7%   16.8%      17.3%
12-17.9  20.2%   19.9%      20.1%
6-11.9   23.4%   20.0%      21.9%
0-5.9    14.3%   13.2%      13.8%

SSB 2013
Hours     SO     SO(A)     Overall
42-48    1.6%    2.0%       1.7%
36-41.9  2.4%    4.6%       3.2%
30-35.9  4.9%    6.8%       5.5%
24-29.9  9.3%    10.6%      9.8%
18-23.9  15.2%   15.0%      15.1%
12-17.9  19.7%   19.7%      19.7%
6-11.9   25.7%   23.4%      24.9%
0-5.9    21.2%   18.0%      20.0%

Interestingly there seemed to be no material difference in time operated 
in each category between single ops and single ops assisted in both 
contests.   It also seems there were a lot more very casual operators in 
the SSB contest i.e. 0-6 hours which is probably not surprising as not 
everyone is a confident CW op.

Also it is pretty obvious without the casual operators the hard core 
would get bored pretty quickly!

73
Mark ZL3AB
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Member ZL3X The Quake Contesters