[VHFcontesting] The impact of the digital modes on the January VHF Contest and some suggestions on dealing with those impacts

[Ed Kucharski]

Buddy: See attached Excel file. It required a lot of data mining to find all the info. I used on-line ARRL contest result write-ups and a couple of blanks got filled in by direct email to those authors who were able to provide additional info that wasn't in the article. Disclaimer: I did most of the math and transposition by hand - I did double check but there may be an error or two!
73,
Ed K3DNE

>     On 03/20/2021 8:55 AM Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting < vhfcontesting at contesting.com mailto:vhfcontesting at contesting.com > wrote:
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>     I find your statement about the average number of QSOs, in the top ten logs, to be fascinating. Can you expand on it?
>     Buddy WB4OMG
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Ed Kucharski < k3dne at comcast.net mailto:k3dne at comcast.net >
>     To: Marshall-K5QE < k5qe at k5qe.com mailto:k5qe at k5qe.com >; VHF Contesting Reflector < vhfcontesting at contesting.com mailto:vhfcontesting at contesting.com >
>     Sent: Fri, Mar 19, 2021 4:48 pm
>     Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The impact of the digital modes on the January VHF Contest and some suggestions on dealing with those impacts
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>     Interestingly, even with all those additional QSO's, the Average Score PER Top Ten Log (all categories) has dropped from 25,016 in 2005 to 4,419 in 2015 to 3874 in 2020.
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>     73,
>     Ed K3DNE
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