Correction: My original email left off the first two volunteers - KQ2M and
NN3W. My apologies to both of them!
Back in August, I posted a message on the cq-contest reflector looking for
volunteers who would be willing to type in line scores for WPX contests. I
as very happy to hear from about a dozen volunteers.
As always, it is amazing the passion and willingness to help that can be
found in the contesting world.
Each volunteer received a set of image files with magazine page scans (some
better than others) and instructions. I would estimate it took each
volunteer about 12-18 hours of hard work to accomplish their task. It would
then take me another 3-6 hours to add the necessary country info and convert
the files into the online database.
The result is that we now have an online database with ALL lines scores for
WPX SSB from 1985 to 2008 and for WPX CW from 1991 to 2008. You can access
various views at http://www.cqwpx.com/score_db.htm
Since there was so much hand work and very small print, I would like to ask
everyone to check their scores and report any errors. As we got back into
some of the Russian calls of the 1980's it wasn't always clear what country
a particular call might have been in. So look for errors there as well. If
you know of additional scores or corrections that may have appeared in
errata in a CQ magazine, please let me know about them.
Thanks to the following for their data entry efforts to help build this
historical record.
WPX SSB
Call Year Entries
KQ2M 1994 1650
NN3W 1993 1589
N7AZ 1992 1618
K5ZD 1991 1616
WP3C 1990 1578
SV1RP 1989 1727
K5ZD 1988 1750
AB7E 1987 1554
KA3DRR 1986 1544
N1NK 1985 1459
WPX CW
Call Year Entries
K4ZW 1992 1160
NN3W 1991 1196
More to come. If you would like to volunteer, please let me know!
Randy Thompson, K5ZD
Director - CQ WPX Contest
email: k5zd@cqwpx.com
web: www.cqwpx.com
PS - Interesting to see how contest activity / log submissions is changing
over time. See
http://www.cqwpx.com/stats.htm
PPS - Only 64 days until WPX SSB.
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