[RTTY] [CQ-Contest] Average ages of contesters...

[Robert Chudek - KØRC]

Contesters...

I received a Top Ten log from a DXer who ran the JARTS RTTY contest. I am going to analyze this information this week and post some of the findings. With this larger dataset, I am sure the numbers will change.

For example, those supposedly "old fellows" over there in the United Kingdom are really not 68.1 years on average. Preliminary investigate of this 2,000+ entry log reveals their average age to be 54.8 years.

My log was obviously biased. The only conclusion I can make is that the seasoned "G" contesters are better at getting their signals into the upper Midwest of the USA??? What is that old saying... "Age and wisdom triumph youth and exuberance!" :-)

As I mentioned in my original message, I did this analysis "just for fun" and the results will contain a lot of "bullet holes". In any case, I hope you enjoy looking at some of these spreadsheets while you wait for the contest season to begin.

73 de Bob - KØRC in MN

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: SteveWS4F at aol.com 
  To: k0rc at pclink.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Average ages of contesters...


  In a message dated 10/24/2006 9:19:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, k0rc at citlink.net writes:
    58.3   USA (209)

  Yea and some of us late fifties types are getting a little old to look forward to 48 hours in the chair.  Who's coming behind us?

  Steve, K4RF