Good scheme for getting PVP IOs?

As somebody currently working on making a viable PVP toon one annoying fact has become apparent to me: PVP IOs drop when you defeat other players in PVP, but you can't defeat other players in PVP (or at least not many) if you don't have PVP IOs. So far I've been using AE tickets and exploiting market behavior to generate inf, but it's been fairly slow considering the billions of inf I'll need to buy the PVP IOs and the fact that I'm really only just starting to learn how to use the market to get money. So my question is this: would simply setting up an arena match with some of my sg mates (who also lack PVP IOs) so we could fight each other for a few hours yield any PVP IO drops for us, or is the drop rate so low that we'd be better off doing something else?

The drop rate is somewhere between 1 in 80-120 rep valid PvP kills. When a player is killed, a 5 minute timer kicks in, and until those 5 minutes are up, any further kills of that player do not count for PvP rep, and therefore do not have a chance to drop a PvP recipe.

So, provided you make one kill exactly every 5 minutes, that comes out to 12 chances per hour to get a PvP drop. Based on the drop rate, it will take you an average of anywhere between about 6-10 hours to get one recipe.

Obviously, if you are cycling kills among multiple opponents, you will increase your chances within the 5 minute timer window.

just do what a ton of people alerady do and set up an afk farm in a PvP zone with a toon with a rez power and another toon killing it over and over and over and over and over..........

I recently started doing this. It's probably the best way to get drops, but you need to do it for a long time to get much of anything. The last drop I got took over 300 kills.