Statistics of CQ-M Contest 1998 Contest date: May 9-10, 1998 383 logs were received by the Contest Committee, +25% to CQ-M 1997. Logs: Logs: 74% from Europe 79% by air mail 19% from Asia 19% by electronic mail 3.8% from North America 2% on floppy disc 1.9% from South America 0.6% from Arica 0.3% from Oceania SOMB-CW was the most popular category of entry. 14 MHz band was the most popular among SOSB category of entry. In the table below the first line for each entry class shows average ("av") magnotudes, the second shows magnitudes of winner ("wi") of that class. Single band entries of different modes of operation (CW, SSB & Mixed) were calculated together ("All") for more simplicity. ==================================================================== Entry Number Result QSOs Reduction Score Mult New mult value of average made of QSO # av/wi av/wi (Pts/Mult ratio) logs /winner av/wi av/wi av/wi -------------------------------------------------------------------- SOMB-CW 67 70664 283 -2.5% 649 84 7.7 371136 834 -4.5% 1933 192 10.0 SOMB-SSB 28 46016 180 -3.0% 428 60 7.1 336400 719 -3.2% 1682 200 8.4 SOMB-MIX 32 103295 342 -3.0% 782 87 8.9 499907 988 -18.0% 2183 229 9.5 MOMB 33 202141 533 -3.7% 1264 123 10.2 934116 1339 -16.7% 3876 241 16.2 SO-1.8-All 8 1790 8 -2.6% 88 16 5.5 6356 65 -4.3% 227 28 8.1 SO-3.5-All 26 9647 143 -2.1% 287 31 9.2 18163 228 -2.2% 443 41 10.8 SO-7.0-All 23 9844 118 -2.5% 253 31 8.1 47844 402 -1.5% 886 54 16.4 SO-14-All 69 11156 113 -2.8% 270 28 9.6 85312 542 -0.7% 1376 62 22.2 SO-21-All 21 4917 69 -21% 170 21 8.0 19512 195 -3.5% 542 36 15.0 SO-28-All 4 221 13 0% 26 8 3.2 290 15 0% 29 10 2.9 SOMB-QRP 9 5451 110 -0.6% 242 38 6.3 103563 442 -2.9% 933 111 8.4 WW2V. 7 28831 200 -1.3% 413 66 6.2 62426 344 -0.9% 686 91 7.5 SSTV 13 631 21 -11.5% 42 10 4.2 2825 51 -51.0% 113 25 4.5 SO-RS 1 6 2 -33% 3 2 1.5 6 2 -33% 3 2 1.5 SWL 8 324 182 -11.4% - - - 760 314 -2.8% - - - CHECKLOG 32 - - - - - - LATELOG 2 - - - - - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Entry Number Result QSOs Reduction Score Mult New mult value of average made of QSO # av/wi av/wi (Pts/Mult ratio) logs /winner av/wi av/wi av/wi ====================================================================