[UK-CONTEST] How many people go contesting?

[Roger G3SXW]

Bob,
We have many sub-hobbies so I believe that it is *relative* size of 
population rather than actual size which matters. In other words there are x 
times more contesters than ATVers, y times more than ARDFers, etc. I think 
we all know that contesters are one of the biggest on-air sub-groups.

I doubt that there is any way to make valid quantifications. If all RSGB 
contest logs could be dumped into one central data-base then you could see 
how many unique call-signs are present. The adjudicators would have to 
remove Busted calls first, and presumably single instances might be 
discounted, only designating a contester as such if he joins in (makes QSOs, 
not sends in logs) say minimum three contests per year.

Just for comparison CQ World-Wide attracts some 30,000 different contesters 
to join in on the air each year (both modes, but with Busted calls removed).
Cheers - 73 de Roger/G3SXW.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob G3PJT" <g3pjt at btinternet.com>
To: "UK Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] How many people go contesting?


> Hi
>
> I was told over the weekend that ,
>
> ' only 10% of the readership of RadCom go contesting' , with the
> implication that not much attention should be given to contesting.
>
> As that 10% would be 2500 amateurs it seems to me that this might be 80%
> of the truly active radio amateurs in the RSGB, active in the most
> general sense..
>
> Anybody got any ideas as to how many RSGB members actually use our
> spectrum on a regular basis?
>
> Or can you suggest a way I might estimate it?
>
> 73 Bob G3PJT
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