[CQ-Contest] RBN question

[Charlie Ocker]

On 2/20/2025 5:44 PM, Tibor Finta wrote:
> Dear Experts,
> 
> I created a quick statistics sheet on RBN figures of the ARRL DX CW contest.
> I took 4  SOSB 20M stations: HG0Y, HG5E, TM4W and UA9YBA.
> Here is how many times they were spotted by RBN in North America:
> HG0Y:  14236
> HG5E:  16648
> TM4W:  16223
> UA9YBA: 4918
> 
> According to 3830scores.com and contestonlinescore.com pages these are the
> QSO numbers:
> HG0Y:   1005
> HG5E:    902
> TM4W:   1139
> UA9YBA:  967
> 
> My question: how could it be that three stations were spotted by RBN three
> times more than UA9YBA?

My simple answer: propagation

73,
Charlie N9CO

> I listened to UA9YBA at the end of the contest and his CQ was absolutely
> correct: "CQ UA9YBA UA9YBA TEST".
> 
> 73:
> Tibor
> HG5E / HA1AH