Category: Announcements

The log checking and results of the CQ WW DX Contest SSB 2014 are now complete and have been sent to CQ Magazine.  The official results will appear in the April 2015 issue of CQ Magazine.

Some interesting statistics from the log checking for CQ WW SSB 2014.

8,283 logs total
5,241,570 QSOs total
223 different countries
55,182 ( 1.1%) QSO with unique calls
30,609 (55.5%) unique calls busted
41,682 ( 0.8%) dupes
4,378,097 (83.5%) QSO checked against another log
4,261,631 (97.3%) QSO checked good when checked against another log
70,147 ( 1.6%) Busted Calls
19,009 ( 0.4%) busted Exchange
27,310 ( 0.6%) Not in Log

It is quite remarkable that we are able to fully cross check 83.5% of all QSOs in the logs received.

All entrants will be sent a link to their log checking report in the coming days. Use the report to compare your accuracy to the numbers above.

Average score reduction for all logs: 10.3%
Average Error Rate for all logs: 3.2%

This is the third year of the 5 day log submission deadline.  Logs received within 5 days of the contest are eligible for awards.  Logs received after the deadline are still included in the score listings, but are not eligible for awards or to set category records.

The new deadline is being well received.  With 8,280 logs received for CQ WW DX Contest SSB 2014, over 81% were received by the deadline.  Details are shown in the charts below.

 

The contest was October 25-26, 2014.  Some logs were received before the contest was over.

Table of data values:

Date	Logs Received	Cumulative %
10/26/2014	32	0.39%
10/27/2014	874	10.94%
10/28/2014	3194	49.52%
10/29/2014	1172	63.67%
10/30/2014	796	73.29%
10/31/2014	684	81.55%
11/1/2014	641	89.29%
11/2/2014	196	91.65%
11/3/2014	113	93.02%
11/4/2014	76	93.94%
11/5/2014	57	94.63%
11/6/2014	89	95.70%
11/7/2014	50	96.30%
11/8/2014	50	96.91%
11/9/2014	34	97.32%
11/10/2014	47	97.89%
11/11/2014	24	98.18%
11/12/2014	18	98.39%
11/13/2014	16	98.59%
11/14/2014	10	98.71%
11/15/2014	6	98.78%
11/16/2014	20	99.02%
11/17/2014	8	99.12%
11/18/2014	7	99.20%
11/19/2014	5	99.26%
11/20/2014	2	99.29%
11/21/2014	12	99.43%
11/22/2014	4	99.48%
11/23/2014	4	99.53%
More	39	100.00%
Total logs	8280

We continue to accept paper logs for the CQ WW DX Contest. A group of committee members and volunteers help type these logs into the computer so we can fully process them along with the other logs.

For CQ WW SSB 2014, our volunteer typists included:

DL6RAI      4 logs      438 QSOs

G0MTN       3 logs      226 QSOs

HA1AG       2 logs      72 QSOs

LU5DX       7 logs      688 QSOs

S50A        6 logs      965 QSOs

US0LW       2 logs      473 QSOs

VE3EJ       3 logs      103 QSOs

W4AU        2 logs      159 QSOs

YO3JR       4 logs      745 QSOs

YU1EW       6 logs      1329 QSOs

ZS4TX       5 logs      347 QSOs

 

Total logs – 44

Total QSOs – 5,545

 

We urge everyone to submit their logs in electronic format.  We will continue to do our best to support submission of logs in any format — including paper.

Thanks to our typists for helping get all of the logs into the system.