[PVRCNC] PVRC

[Howard Hoyt]

At the risk of sounding negative, I  think you are on the money Jim.

I would note the same goes for contesting.com-something of an inverse 
ratio between posters and their contest activity ?
I suppose it is easier to post than actually get on the air.

73, Howie N4AF

Jim Jordan K4QPL wrote:

>I think the important measure of a CONTESTING club is the % of members who
>participate and submit logs in the year's premier status contest.  At a
>rough estimate of about 20% for PVRC, maybe we should change our name to the
>"Potomac Valley Internet Ragchewing and Social Club."
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>See you in SS 2005!
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>73,
>
>Jim, K4QPL
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Peter Alterman" <peter_alterman at hotmail.com>
>To: <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:23 PM
>Subject: [PVRC] Preliminary Analysis of CW SS Scores Data for Clubs
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>>I didn't see anything in the web report of the CW SS about how the club
>>competition went, so I downloaded the results and did a little analysis of
>>the data.  According to these (admittedly not double-checked) data,
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>results
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>>were:
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>>Club                                          Score             Nr Stns
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>Avg
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>>Score
>>Northern California Contest Club 9,490,760 120     79,090
>>Society of Midwest Contesters        6,071,368       103    58,945
>>Potomac Valley Radio Club          5,267,268    66       79,807
>>Yankee Clipper Contest Club         3,265,804   49      66,649
>>Minnesota Wireless Assn                   3,193,334     51        62,614
>>Mad River Radio Club                     2,344,502       31 75,629
>>Tennessee Contest Group                1,913,940 22     86,997
>>Frankford Radio Club                     1,912,672       24   79,695
>>Southern California Contest Club 1,726,542   21      82,216
>>South East Contest Club                  1,485,428     18       82,524
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>>In addition, I ran the following numbers
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>>Club                                      Nr > 200k Nr < 200k > 100k % >
>>100k
>>Northern California Contest Club 0                   46                38%
>>Society of Midwest Contesters        1                  23
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>23%
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>>Potomac Valley Radio Club          0                    25
>>38%
>>Yankee Clipper Contest Club         2                     9
>>22%
>>Minnesota Wireless Assn                   0                     14
>>        27%
>>Mad River Radio Club                     0                         9
>>     29%
>>Tennessee Contest Group                0                    8
>>36%
>>Frankford Radio Club                     0                         8
>>     33%
>>Southern California Contest Club 3                     5
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>38%
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>>South East Contest Club                  0                      7
>>        39%
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>>I ran the numbers for all the clubs with 2 or more entries but only worked
>>with the top 10 this first time.  A few things stand out: NCCC won going
>>away in all categories except number of stations with over 200k points.  I
>>see three "classes" based on numbers of entrants, large was NCCC and SMC,
>>medium was PVRC, YCCC and MWA and then the "smaller" big clubs.  It's
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>pretty
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>>clear that NCCC has a large number of very high-scoring stations and it's
>>also pretty clear that SMC racked up the points by sheer brute force, two
>>very effective strategies and proof that there's no substitute for
>>participation.
>>
>>Be interesting to compare these data to equivalent data from the Phone SS.
>>
>>73,  Peter W2CDO
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