[CTSARA] Some Interesting Field Day Statistics - part Deux

[Jonathan Solomon]

Jon-

Those are amazing statistics!  (You have a future as an ESPN analyst!)

[For all those on the list... the following paragraph is stated tongue
in check...  No offense is meant... this is humor.. maybe not good
humor... but humor all the same...]

Have you considered that perhaps in our club, the young guys might
have actual jobs that require them to be at work 9-5 M-F (not
"consultants" or "retired")...  or that the "older" operators might
have a bit more trouble discerning QRMs from QSOs? :)

In all seriousness, kodus to the club.  We all know that ham radio had
the reputation of being "just a bunch of old fuddy duddies" and these
stats DISprove it.  If we keep up the ratio change of older men to
younger people including women over the next year, we might be able to
give the 55+ crowd a year of of physical labor!

What did /I/ notice during FD?  That, for the most part, the "older"
group was enjoying working with the younger group and, especially, the
newbies.  It brightened my day and up my spirits when I would walk "up
the hill" and see those guys sitting around chatting among themselves.
 Honestly.

So, Jon, can I request one more stat?  What percentage of club members
participated IN ANY WAY in FD?  I think /that/ is a stat we need to
really work on increasing for next year.

'73
Jon
W3EIC

PS: FWIW, it makes me feel good that I'm considered a young guy!


On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Jon Perelstein <jperelst at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ahhhhh ... why does the reflector lose all my formatting???  Trying it again so it's readable
>
> I've been analyzing our logs from Field Day and discovered a couple of interesting statistics:
> Just over 52% of our non-GOTA QSOs came from operators under 40 yrs old
> Another 27%+ of the non-GOTA QSOs came from operators aged between 40 and 49
> Well over 60% of our GOTA QSOs came from women
> About 100% of the site setup and about 80% of the site breakdown was conducted by operators 55 and over, with most of the humping of the beam done by a ham in his mid-50s and another in his mid-70s
> So in other words, in our club the old guys do all the physical work and the young guys sit around chatting on the radio.
> Seriously, those are some pretty good statistics regarding participation by age and sex.  We might just have the youngest operator base in all of CT, if not all of New England.
> JonKB1QBZ
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