[RTTY] Number of Partipants in RTTY Contests

Don Hill AA5AU aa5au@bellsouth.net
Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:51:26 -0600


It's quite obvious that a LOT of RTTY contesters do not submit
logs.  In the 2001 ARRL Round-Up, according to Waldemar's list,
665 logs were submitted.  In that very contest I worked 892 unique
calls.

Below, I have put into parenthesis, the number of unique calls I worked
in those contests listed.  I have to conclude that the number of logs
submitted does not represent the number of participants very well.

73, Don AA5AU

> Here a little analysis out of the "RTTY World Ranking List".
> 
> The quantity of logs on the basis of the latest available
> contest results in the RWRL (summary of all categories):
> 
>    Contest             Year Logs
> --------------------------------
>  1 ARRL RTTY Round-Up  2001  665  (892)
>  2 CQ/NRJ WPX          2001  659  (976)
>  3 CQ/NRJ WW DX        2000  543  (820 in 2000, 1061 in 2001)
>  4 BARTG Spring HF     2001  273  (398)
>  5 SARTG DX            2001  269  (260)
>  6 JARTS               2000  263  (689 in 2000, 788 in 2001)
>  7 EA WW               2001  250  (362)
>  8 WAEDC               2000  233  (334 in 2000, 563 in 2001)
>  9 SP DX               2001  196  (142)
> 10 BARTG Sprint        2001  186  (370)
> 11 OK RTTY             2000  178  (did not participate)
> 12 SCC RTTY            2000  170  (did not participate in 2000, 233 in 2001)
> 13 ANARTS              2001  160  (did not participate in 2001)
> 14 VOLTA               2001  152 (51 in a part-time effort)
> 15 Russian WW          2001  102  (238)
> 16 XE RTTY             2001   85  (did not participate)
> 17 Anatolian WW        2001   32  (only made 3 QSO's)
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