The log checking and results of the 2014 CQ WW DX Contest CW are now complete and have been sent to CQ Magazine. The official results will appear in the May 2015 issue of CQ Magazine.
Some interesting statistics from the log checking for CQ WW CW 2014.
7,657 logs total
5,848,165 QSOs total
213 different countries
39,696 ( 0.7%) QSO with unique calls
24,765 (62.4%) Unique calls busted during checking
58,372 ( 1.0%) Dupes
5,147,149 (88.0%) QSO checked against another log
5,008,392 (97.3%) QSO checked good when checked against another log
78,460 ( 1.5%) Busted calls
18,969 ( 0.4%) Busted exchange
41,328 ( 0.8%) Not in Log
It is quite remarkable that we are able to fully cross check 88.0% 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.
Median score reduction for all logs: 8.27%
Median Error Rate for all logs: 2.56%
(Median = 50% of logs are lower and 50% are higher.)