[RTTY] Number of Partipants in RTTY Contests

[Jerry Flanders]

At 07:51 AM 1/13/2002 -0800, W7TI wrote:

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>Counting the number of Qs does show the overall activity, but that isn't
>quite the same as the amount of participation.  A fine distinction, it's
>true.  Both counts are important, but different.

Not so fine, really. In the RU, I will show up in some logs as 4 q's., on 
10, 15, 20, and 40. I am still only one station participitating.

A few posts ago, AA5AU said: "In the year 2001, I made a total of 11,669 
RTTY contest QSO's (excluding dupes)". Don, do you have the number of 
individual stations you contacted? I suspect the number of stations you 
contacted over the entire year may come close to the total number of 
stations active in contests on RTTY. That number might not be terribly 
useful, but would at least satisfy curiosity.

Jerry W4UK