A little number crunching of the results (because that sort of thing appeals to me... (the XYL says, "There's something seriously wrong with you.")) tends to support the idea that the hardware is not the primary factor for this contest. The results below are somewhat suspect in that only 'Radio 1' was considered, and all of the QSO's were attributed to that radio. (A better approach might be to split the number of QSO's between Radio 1 and Radio 2. I might dedicate some brain cycles to that.)
Interestingly, of the teams that made use of K3's for Radio 1, six of them used another brand for Radio 2, whereas teams that used something other than a K3 for 'Radio 1' didn't (with only a single exception (W1B)) make use of a K3 for 'Radio 2'.
Given the number of K3's in the contest it's not surprising that 68% of all QSO's made were made by K3's. I hope the formatting holds for the table below. If it doesn't, e-mail me and I'll send you my spreadsheet.
Radio 1 Avg # QSOs Avg Score Avg CW QSOs Avg SSB QSOs Avg HQ QSOs Avg DX QSOs
FT1000D 3,564 4,212,430 2,230 1,334 145 204
FT1000MP 3,935 4,900,036 3,208 727 136 219
FT3000 3,871 5,308,913 2,892 980 152 235
FTDX5000 3,910 5,330,219 2,968 942 157 240
IC756-3 4,285 5,982,317 3,039 1,246 153 243
IC7600 3,885 5,635,070 3,110 775 161 234
IC7800 4,382 5,808,693 3,656 726 167 250
K3 3,955 5,308,466 3,054 900 151 233
Orion II 3,622 4,532,602 2,562 1,060 143 219
TS590 3,559 4,433,905 2,796 763 134 221
73
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On Jul 25, 2014, at 05:28 AM, Barry <
[hidden email]> wrote:
I agree completely. The rig and logging software have very to do with the
outcome.
The #1 team probably has a sore back and sore arms, from lugging 7800s there
:-)
Barry W2UP
Don Wilhelm-4 wrote
> Yes, very interesting, and I think most of the credit goes to the
> operators, rather than the radios.
>
> However, the fact that a very large percentage of these top operators
> *choose* to use the Elecraft K3 does say a lot about the desirability of
> the K3 for contesting. Whether that be because of the weight, or
> because of the performance and operating interface, you would probably
> have to ask each K3 operator about his choice.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
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