[CQ-Contest] Don't EU stations use the RBN feeds?

[Christian Schneider]

Hi Pete,
it is Q31 from the files with the full Q&A set plus freetext comments at 
the bottom of the linked page
http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/newsarchives/survey-2015/

Its wording was: "31. Which of these sources do you use (multiple 
answers possible)?"

The link to the survey was provided at the end of the upload tool and in 
mails to participants and in mails to reflectors. Response rates are at 
the newssite linked above. The German rate with 40 percent can be called 
representative for WAG participants (which we could check by some of the 
figures in the survey like QSO numbers, Op-hours and category).

The reponse rate of the English survey lagged behind the Russian version 
compared to the number of participants from the respective areas.

The English speaking group of respondents is a bit shifted towards the 
more competetive participants. The German group is shifted a bit towards 
the SSB-folks, as the percentage of SSB-only Ops in SOP mixed is a bit 
higher for DLs than for Non-DLs, so some imminent shift away from RBN 
usage.

Russian speaking ops have a bit higher percentage of CW QSOs than the 
average, but this group is even more "relaxed" about competetive goals 
than the DL group.

And no, I did not buy the SPSS option to be able to split up answers for 
subgroups - to get e.g. the above sources percentages for the subgroup 
of CW-ops only (but thus excluding mixed-ops).

The survey like many others of this kind was meant to get an impression 
from a broad spectrum of topics not the deepest possible insight into 
selected issues. Like all surveys of this kind it can hardly claim to be 
fully representative. But some answers like available antennas, tools 
for sending CW motives, incentives etc were very interesting and 
possibly sometimes surprising.

73, Chris DL8MBS
WAG Contestmanager


Am 12.12.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Pete Smith N4ZR:
> It would be interesting to know a couple of things:
>
> Did the Clusterspots percentage include the RBN percentage? It appears 
> that it must.  Also, was the question asked of all respondents about 
> *all* operating, or just about contesting? Finally, was participation 
> in the survey actively solicited or were the respondents self-selected?
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 12/12/2016 11:17 AM, Gerry Hull wrote:
>> Very interesting. -- confirms my claim.
>>
>> 73, Gerry W1VE
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Christian Schneider <
>> prickler.schneider at t-online.de> wrote:
>>
>>> About cluster/RBN/skimmer usage, figures from the 2015 WAG survey:
>>>
>>>
>>> 426 German participants:
>>> Q: Do you use:
>>> Clusterspots 61%
>>> RBN-Spots  25%
>>> Own Skimmer 3%
>>> Nothing of the above 37%
>>>
>>>
>>> 85 English speaking respondents:
>>> Q: Do you use:
>>> Clusterspots 51%
>>> RBN-Spots  37%
>>> Own Skimmer 5%
>>> Nothing of the above 38%
>>>
>>>
>>> 71 Russian speaking respondents:
>>> Q: Do you use:
>>> Clusterspots 41%
>>> RBN-Spots  18%
>>> Own Skimmer 10%
>>> Nothing of the above 51%
>>>
>>> Source: http://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/dx/contest/wag/en/newsa
>>> rchives/survey-2015/
>>>
>>> 73, Chris DL8MBS
>>>
>>>
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