KR2Q Commentary, SSB

Tracking the assisted trend (SSB)

The CQWW Contest committee is busy working on the 2016 logs.

While that is going on, we thought it would be interesting to look at the trend in the single-op, all band, high power category.  Some tell us that this is where the “real” competition is.

This study is limited to Europe and North American, because those two continents represent the majority of entrants.  Please see the table below, which tracks the percent of entrants, by continent, who claimed Assisted.

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K5ZD Commentary

Operating Time for Single Operator Entries

There is often a lot of discussion about the top scores in the CQ WW Contest.  You know, the ones that operate 40+ hours. But, how many of those are there? The tables below include all entrants in the SOAB categories (Assisted, Unassisted, HP, LP, QRP), for 2015.

On SSB, ~90% operate less than 30 hours.
On CW, ~90% operate less than 35 hours.

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K5ZD Commentary, CW

2015 CQ WW CW Multiplier Station QSOs per Hour

Doug KR2Q created the following data from the 2015 CQ WW CW Logs for top Multi-Single stations. The table shows how many QSOs were made by the multiplier station during each hour of the contest. In the CQ WW Multi-Single category, the multiplier station is only permitted to work new multipliers.  It is quite busy in the first day, but becomes much more difficult on the second day.

TABLE OF MULTIPLIER STATION QSOS PER HOUR OF THE CONTEST

hour CN2AA P33W EF8R ED8X UP2L ES9C TM6M PJ4Q OM7M E7DX
1 57 73 50 50 91 71 56 50 45 67
2 56 48 55 29 45 33 52 23 37 26
3 33 32 29 45 29 30 27 29 20 43
4 65 24 35 12 24 17 56 28 15 39
5 44 18 22 10 50 23 23 11 35 14
6 23 35 27 25 21 23 23 13 22 21
7 20 51 19 48 22 45 8 7 25 35
8 28 30 39 26 16 20 26 5 45 60
9 52 30 40 40 25 21 66 6 55 34
10 15 24 30 17 14 32 24 4 53 27
11 23 14 19 18 23 34 28 16 41 25
12 17 12 20 9 19 22 19 35 26 26
13 15 25 20 19 19 21 11 11 22 16
14 8 12 12 9 11 24 28 16 18 15
15 10 17 3 21 7 15 16 19 18 18
16 8 12 5 16 6 9 12 16 18 15
17 10 6 13 14 4 7 12 13 10 8
18 11 10 10 13 5 9 4 8 11 9
19 4 3 6 15 7 9 2 12 6 5
20 6 3 5 4 6 2 4 8 3 7
21 8 7 7 6 5 5 1 5 6 4
22 10 7 11 11 7 4 5 6 3 6
23 8 5 10 5 4 8 4 4 3 7
24 4 2 3 11 5 5 3 2 1 2
25 4 5 8 4 3 4 1 5 6 3
26 5 2 3 5 4 4 1 4 7 6
27 3 1 3 2 2 5 3 3 6 4
28 2 1 3 13 3 4 2 10 2 2
29 3 7 0 6 8 3 1 7 2 2
30 0 5 1 9 3 2 0 7 6 7
31 0 5 0 0 3 9 0 1 8 8
32 7 3 4 6 3 4 7 2 4 3
33 7 5 11 1 5 4 10 0 6 6
34 4 1 0 1 6 3 7 2 3 1
35 1 1 1 3 1 0 0 4 0 1
36 1 0 2 3 4 1 1 1 1 2
37 1 2 0 6 5 2 1 2 2 1
38 1 7 0 10 2 1 4 15 4 5
39 1 1 0 2 0 2 2 4 7 1
40 4 2 2 1 2 0 7 2 3 4
41 1 4 2 2 2 1 3 5 1 1
42 3 2 4 1 3 2 3 2 4 2
43 5 0 6 1 1 0 0 7 0 2
44 2 0 0 6 0 1 1 4 0 2
45 3 1 5 0 0 1 1 2 0 1
46 1 1 3 0 1 5 1 1 1 0
47 1 3 2 0 3 1 1 4 1 2
48 2 3 3 0 2 0 0 3 0 0
Total 597 562 553 555 531 548 567 444 612 595
Day 1 535 500 490 473 465 489 510 347 538 529
Day 2 62 62 63 82 66 59 57 97 74 66
last 12 hours 25 26 27 29 21 16 24 51 23 21

 

K5ZD Commentary

2015 CQ WW Survey Results – part 2

The CQ WW Contest Committee conducted a survey of contesters from September 2 to 29, 2015.  Invitations were sent to everyone who had submitted a log in the 2014 CQ WW SSB and CW events.  Public invitation to take the survey was also made on the cq-contest email reflector.

We received 5,117 responses from contest operators around the world (after removing a few duplicate responses).  See the part 1 for a look at who answered the survey. This blog post will present the results of the questions about possible rule changes.

Q: Should the Single Operator and Single Operator Assisted categories be combined into one Single Operator category?

(The combined Single Operator category would allow ALL entrants to use spotting networks, DX cluster, packet, reverse beacon network, telnet, and DX Skimmer to help the operator find contacts.) *

Many national and regional contests have combined single operators into one category that permits use of the DX Cluster. There is often confusion by new contesters over the distinction between the “non-assisted” and “assisted” categories.  The CQ WW Contest Committee spends a large number of hours each year trying to confirm entries are in the correct category.

The overall majority of respondents support continuing to have two separate categories. This is similar to the response in 2013 when this same question was asked.  (The 2013 survey did not provide an option for no opinion.)

2015 2013
Yes 2117 (41.4%) 2315 (44.9%)
No 2551 (49.8%) 2839 (55.1%)
No opinion 449 (8.7%) n/a
Total 4668 5154

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