I dont as I no longer enter contests, But Ian gave you figures which showed 1% , BUT as I said those figures will be much higher from central Mediterranean area. taking imperial figures before a mode is used in vengeance in a contest, is IMO not going to allow for increased activity. FT8 allows for minimal human intervention, the bandwidth allows for much lower power levels, and allow with ease the use on holiday with a very minimal setup. And in the Med area there is very enhanced tropo propagation most of the summer months, as well as Es So its not unreasonable to predict that there will be more hams on vacation participating in contest activity on VHF+ I've noticed there are more non local Hams on 6mtrs this summer in Spain, expats will have EA callsigns , but I've worked as many non Spanish stations from Spain as Spanish stations. There will also be more in July, August with school vacations , so looking at the major contest logs will be misleading as they tend to be in the Spring and Fall, Europe has free movement with over 30 different call prefixes, with the largest concentration in the northern Med area, I understand difficult to understand as there is nothing like it on the NA continent.
On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 17:07:29 -0400 Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Richard -- > > Once again: What we would like to have as a baseline reference is an > actual count of complex callsigns in a recent log from a Region 1 VHF+ > contest that contains some hundreds of QSOs. Do you have one? > > -- Joe, K1JT > > On 7/28/2017 5:01 PM, Richard Bown wrote: > > A further note > > Ians log was I suspect from N W Europe, if you draw a circle of 1000kms > > centred on Rome , , > > Italy, that will cover the mot prolific use of complex callsigns, The > > Italians have similar > > regulations to those in Austria, and are in range of most of the Adriatic > > and Mediterranean > > coast. From those areas you could have as much as 10% of callsigns with > > either format of > > xx/<call> or <call>/<region. > > There will also be those making contacts with contest stations that wont > > put an entry in > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:36:21 +0100 > > Richard Bown <rich...@g8jvm.com> wrote: > > > >> you are missing an important point Joe > >> As FT8 is a quick exchange mode it will encourage more use, so what is 1% > >> on current figures > >> supplied by Ian will rise, especially on shorter period contests on 6 mtrs > >> and 4 mtrs in the > >> summer where there are many Hams that spend weeks , sometimes months in > >> second homes in the > >> Mediterranean coastal areas. > >> Its like asking how many will be using wsjt modes before you wrote it.. > >> IMO , I would allow for 5% of entries to have complex callsigns . > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:18:29 -0400 > >> Joe Taylor <j...@princeton.edu> wrote: > >> > >>> On 7/28/2017 4:03 PM, Richard Bown wrote: > >>>> It could be a considerable amount Joe, Some countries in region 1 are > >>>> small. > >>> But what I wanted to know is what that amount actually is, in practice, > >>> in a typical VHF+ Region 1 contest log containing some hundreds of QSOs. > >>> -- Joe, K1JT > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> wsjt-devel mailing list > >>> wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > wsjt-devel mailing list > wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel -- -- Best wishes /73 Richard Bown Email : rich...@g8jvm.com HTTP : http://www.g8jvm.com nil carborundum a illegitemis ################################################################################## Ham Call: G8JVM . QRV: 50-432 MHz + Microwave 23 cms 140W, 13 cms 100W & 3cms 5W Maidenhead QRA: IO82SP38, LAT. 52 39.720' N LONG. 2 28.171 W QRV VHF 6mtrs 200W, 4 mtrs 150W, 2mtrs 400W, 70cms 200W OS: Linux Mint 18.1 x86_64 on a Dell Inspiron N5030 laptop ################################################################################## ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
