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[WriteLog] a more realistic contest Duty Cycle

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Subject: [WriteLog] a more realistic contest Duty Cycle
From: wa9als@starband.net (WA9ALS - John)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 12:31:13 -0500
Now Bill, is that FSK or AFSK?  :-))  Theory aside, I would venture that the
times wouldn't be identical due to different means of implementation by WL.

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From: "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
To: "Writelog List" <writelog@contesting.com>
Cc: "Kok Chen" <chen@mac.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 8:44 AM
Subject: [WriteLog] a more realistic contest Duty Cycle


>
> I made up a couple buffers in MMTTY that would be representative of actual
> contest exchanges. I tried them into a dummy load attempting to simulate
> normal time sequences.
> I think my listening segments during cq's may be a bit longer than most
> people due to my inadequate antennas and the need to listen a bit harder.
> I'll leave the math calculations of the exact time sequence/duty cycles to
> someone better than I but it looks to be approximately 50% +/-.
>
> But to my non-analytical eye it appears that from the start of first
> transmission to the end of the last transmission was almost one minute
with
> a duration of 27 seconds total transmitting time.
>
> I concede that this would be best case scenarios.
>
>
> <020911 13:26:59 TX>
> CQ CONTEST DE W9OL BK
> <020911 13:27:08 RX>
> 9 seconds
>
> <020911 13:27:17 TX>
> P5/4L4FN TU 599-001 P5/4L4FN BK
> <020911 13:27:25 RX>
> 8 seconds
>
> <020911 13:27:31 TX>
> R TU DE W9OL QRZ
> <020911 13:27:36 RX>
> 5 seconds
>
> <020911 13:27:46 TX>
> CQ CONTEST DE W9OL BK
> <020911 13:27:51 RX>
> 5 seconds
>
> DE
> C
>
>
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>
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