Whoa, Ed!
Before bemoaning the disappearance of the QSO/grid square leaders, Regional
Leaders, Division Leaders, etc. we should do some checking. According to
what I learned this morning at ARRL the Web results as posted are incomplete
and all these accoutrements will be added in a very few days [No -- don't
call Dan Henderson - he's not there until next week]. So we should all
relax for a while and see if this is really the case.
Looking at Ev's 'expanded' line scores, much of that is already available on
the Web though I admit it is not necessarily obvious that it's there. Ev's
line scores contain HAAT, MSL, total score, category, band scores for each
entry, power/band, and antenna/band. Basically much of that is already on
the ARRL Web line scores. This includes score, category, Q/grids/band [from
DC to daylight] AND the ability to sort the results so that you can see how
your score compares to all other entries in your Division, category or
whatever sort you want to do. With the ability to download your sorts as
CSV or Tab delimited files as Geo Fremin and others have so ably pointed
out.
What is missing is some of the ancillary details that Ev provides. These
could be gathered if there were still summary files and these sum files were
modified by ALL of the software writers to include boxes for that
information - like HAAT, MSL, etc, but it is much more difficult when
dealing with Cabrillo files not at least in part because no one wants to add
anything extraneous to their Cabrillo header section lest they enter the
dance of death with the Robot [similar to the blue screen of death in
Windoze] But the bottom line is that the critical information is there but
arrayed in a way that takes a little thought to extract. That is the price
we pay for 'progress' and the not inconsiderable savings in paper in QST
itself.
Wait and likely we will be rewarded.
73 Gene W3ZZ
World Above 50 MHz
FM19jd MD
50 => 10 GHz
Grid Pirates Contest Group K8GP
Member, CQWW Contest Advisory Group
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Kucharski" <k3dne@adelphia.net>
To: <vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu>; <pvrc@mailman.qth.net>;
<VHFcontesting@contesting.com>
Cc: <dhenderson@arrl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:47 PM
Subject: [VHFcontesting] June VHF WEB REPORT now available
> Well, if I was a little disappointed yesterday with the new format QST
> report of the June VHF QSO Party then today I am very disappointed with
the
> Web Report. It is the same as the QST write-up! Same article, same
> pics. A different looking top ten box than in the QST report. No
expanded
> results (yes I know the scores are available and are sortable). What
> about the time honored tradition of having boxes for the QSO and
Multiplier
> leaders by band (that is even in the January VHF SS web report), Regional
> Leaders, Division Leaders and plaque winners? Check out the June 2001
web
> reports for a much more comprehensive report. There is a lot more ARRL
> could present here and I was under the impression that the web report
would
> be bigger and better than what used to be in QST.
> I sure hope this is a work in progress and not the final product!
> To give everyone an idea of what the ARRL could do - check out W2EV's
> example of an expanded results page
> at: http://www.rochesterny.org/BEACONet/line-scores/line-score.htm
>
> 73,
> Ed K3DNE
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