[PaQSO] What bands and when

Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:56:19 -0400

Since Miller is no longer on the Monday Night Football coverage team, there
is definitely a spot for you!

A wise man once said "STATS?  I DON'T NEED NO STINKIN STATS!"

Seriously, great response Ed.  And fyi, I've deciphered what the "x" in your
equation is.  Vodka Tonix of course!

Regards,

Bob, N3FR

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Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:24 PM
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Subject: [PaQSO] What bands and when

Someone asked a question along those lines, (what bands and when to QSY) in
the past day or two. (sorry, I deleted the original msg).

While there are so very many subjective issues that would go into answering
the question "what band is most important" and "when do I QSY", here's a
little data from my actual results of the past four years: (Far be it from
me to pass up a chance to crunch some numbers):

AND IF YOU HATE STATISTICS, HIT DELETE NOW

Average of past 4  years:
40 meters - 49% of QSO's
80 meters - 28%
20 meters - 13%
160 meters - 5%
15 meters - 4%
10 meters - 1%

But, if your aim is to win a county or category or class, etc., you should
be concentrating on "QSO POINTS" more so than "QSO's". (Your score is
determined by QSO points times Multipliers, so ponts and mults are more
important than QSO's). QSO Points won't change the "band rankings", but
notice the reduction in the spread:

40 meters - 44% of QSO points
80 meters - 31% of QSO points
20 meters - 13%
160 meters - 7%
15 meters - 4%
10 meters - 1%

Note that there is a 21% dropoff from band #1 to band #2 (49% on 40m and
25% on 80m) as far as QSO's go but only a 13% dropoff in QSO points, (44%
vs 31%). Obviously this is the 2 point/CW QSO on 80 meters at work, and it
emphasizes the impact of that rule.

Drilling down a little further into the data, I find that 40 meters still
holds the top spot, but by only one percent, herewith:

40 meter CW - 22% of QSO Points
40 meter SSB - 22% of QSO Points
80 meter CW - 21% of QSO  Points.
80 meter SSB - 11%
20 meter CW - 10%
160 m CW - 6%

There's nothing earth shaking here; all this data analysis just confirms
what is intuitive, that 40 and 80 meters are the "bread and butter" for the
Pa stations.

Maybe, if a station that does "CW only" or "SSB only" were similiarly
analyzed, you might get different results; I don't know. But the band
rankings that were already posted, #1 is 40, #2 is 80, etc, would seem to
hold true "down the line", at least that's my guess.

Now as to the question "when to QSY?", I have a secret formula for that
that I will only partially share with you (I can't let N3FR, who also
monitors this reflector, find out):  You should follow the MUF and QSY at
Tz=((R/Ki)/2x).  "Tz" is Time in zulu (GMT), "R"is your rate meter, "Ki" is
the k index, and of course I'm not telling what "x" is.

73
Ed/WA3SES

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