[NLRS] EN37ed Unique station analysis - inspired by KC0IYT question

[Bill Davis via NLRS]

 In response to an email from Glen KC0IYT reacting to the fact that 28% of my Qs were with rovers, that it might mean that few unique stations were on the air. Hence I tried to take a quick look at that .....  The "analysis" include the rovers , since they are unique calls too.

Station      Number of Qs

W0GHZ - 7
W0UC - 6
N0JCF - 6
W0ZQ - 5
KB0CIM - 5
NT0V - 4
K9MU - 4
K2DRH - 4
K0SIX - 4
VE3KRP - 3
KA0RYT - 3
WB0DBQ - 3
W9HQ - 3
            <--------------------------- < Median number of Qs per station
W0ZF - 2
VE4MA -2
NY0A - 2
N0KK - 2
WB0VGI - 2
KD9AXR - 2
W0PHD - 1
K0SQ - 1
W0DJK - 1
W5CLL -1 

WB0LJC - 1
AI0BP - 1
W0BM - 1
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Rovers
K0DAS/R  (6 Qs)
KC0P/R    (6 Qs)
N0HZO/R (2 Qs)
W9FZ/R   (7 Qs)
KA9VVQ/R (7Qs)


31 unique stations worked, of these 5 were rovers, 16% of the unique stations worked during the contest then were rovers. As before of the 104Qs, the rovers accounted for about 28% with 28Qs.

Looking further, after removing the rover stations, the non-rover stations accounted for 76 QSOs. The stations above the "number of QSOs median" accounted for 58 contacts or 76% or the non rover contacts, whereas the stations below the median accounted for 18 contacts or 23% of the non-rover contacts. Shows one the impact of the "larger stations".


I am not going to mess with trying to trying to looking at actual score points since the unique grids become a factor making the results pretty hard to interpret, as if the above were that much more "meaningful". 


Kinda interesting. The station/QSO's number is negatively affected  by CONDITIONs , DISTANCE and perhaps geography to some degree. Higher density of stations south and south east from my location would provide a higher ratio alone. Due to the remoteness of those of us "up north", interesting that we have as many as we do operating 4 or more different bands. One would think in a higher density population area, there would be more stations equipped for a greater number of bands. 


 In this case I think conditions had a minor effect. Usually I will work Barry on a couple more bands and perhaps a couple of rovers. NO ROVER was attempted on any freq above 432 except for an attempt with FZ - VVQ on 10GHz from EN43. (No joy, but well over 200miles). During the August contest more attempts and Qs were made with rovers above 432. Conditions were noticeably better then and Mel / Carol came farther north. I really don't see many other band/contact losses due to conditions alone. I missed working less than a half dozen stations on any band attempted beyond were the initial Q was made due to conditions alone. 


Might be interesting in looking at Sept contest 10years ago? A winter time passtime perhaps

Fun ... 73  Bill  K0AWU