Mark ZL3AB posted the following to the cq-contest mailing list.
I was wondering what the average operating time in the CQ WW 2013 CW and SSB contests were for single operators. But although the operating hours were listed in the results database you could not sort on it.
Therefore I dropped the Single 2013 Operator All Band and Single Op All Band Assisted HP/LP/QRP results into a spreadsheet to figure it out. I left out the single band entrants as I felt it would distort the figures since many would have to stop when the propagation did.
Average hours
Single Op Single Op(A) Overall CW 17.4 18.1 17.8 SSB 14.7 13.8 14.2
Also 73% of operators operated for less than 24 hours in the CW contest with 79% doing so in the SSB contest. I did a break down on 6 hourly intervals:
CW 2013 Hours SO SO(A) Overall 42-48 2.8% 3.2% 3.0% 36-41.9 4.0% 6.3% 5.0% 30-35.9 6.1% 8.2% 7.0% 24-29.9 11.5% 12.3% 11.8% 18-23.9 17.7% 16.8% 17.3% 12-17.9 20.2% 19.9% 20.1% 6-11.9 23.4% 20.0% 21.9% 0-5.9 14.3% 13.2% 13.8% SSB 2013 Hours SO SO(A) Overall 42-48 1.6% 2.0% 1.7% 36-41.9 2.4% 4.6% 3.2% 30-35.9 4.9% 6.8% 5.5% 24-29.9 9.3% 10.6% 9.8% 18-23.9 15.2% 15.0% 15.1% 12-17.9 19.7% 19.7% 19.7% 6-11.9 25.7% 23.4% 24.9% 0-5.9 21.2% 18.0% 20.0%
Interestingly there seemed to be no material difference in time operated in each category between single ops and single ops assisted in both contests.
Thanks Mark!