You are right, the prop program featured on the web page is for prediction.
But there is an older part that is rarely used that extracts hourly maps
from a log to display actual openings which that gif file is a snapshot of.
This was from a yccc meeting presentation in 1991. In addition the analysis
tool also displayed hourly breakdowns by zone, beam heading, continent,
country, and a couple other parameters. Of course the reason the post
contest tool is rarely used now is that it only works on ct version 6/7
logs. (the original source for it is posted on my web site now so anyone
interested could update it if they wanted)
There are also some other examples. The ar-cluster software displays maps
of real time spots for the sysop using DX Atlas. And I have written one to
play around with that could be used for packet spots or logs using Microsoft
mappoint. On the dx atlas web site there is also a tool called band master
that maps dx spots onto dx atlas. And also on the dx atlas page:
http://www.dxatlas.com/Compat.asp there are a dozen or so other loggers and
tools that map logs, spots, and/or propagation data of various forms.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tim Makins
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 11:08
> To: CQ Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Logs Needed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt@arrl.net>
> To: "'CQ Contest'" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 2:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Logs Needed
>
>
> > The concept has been around for a while actually.
> > http://www.k1ttt.net/images/prop3.gif
> >
> > David Robbins K1TTT
> > e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> > web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> > AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>
> Hi David - thanks for mentioning your Contest Propagation Prediction Tool.
> http://www.k1ttt.net/software.html#mofdos which I'm sure is an excellent
> program. If I read the website correctly, it says that the tool helps an
> operator to know when the bands should be open, and to where.
>
> LogView is something quite different. It is a post-contest tool, for
> analysing contest performance. You feed in a contest log, and it plots all
> of the QSOs on one of 8 different maps by finding the position of each
> from
> an online database of about 970,000 W/VE callsigns. You can step through
> the
> log manually, or animate the contest and watch QSOs build up in the order
> that you made them. You can choose to display all, or selected bands. You
> can compare your QSOs with published contest results, and see who you
> didn't
> work. It can highlight gaps in your antenna coverage. You can search the
> log
> and highlight results on the map. Position, distance and bearing
> information
> is available for each QSO. A full list of features will be released when
> the
> tool goes live, but these are the highlights.
>
> PS - To everyone: I now have enough Test Logs, except for the TARA-RTTY
> contest. If you have a post-2001 TARA-RTTY log, I'd like to see it.
>
> 73s Tim EI8IC
> http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/
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>
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