Are there any VHF/UHF contest activity summaries by grid? i.e, a summary of all contacts made from each grid, or a summary of all stations operating from each grid. (Those are different, in that one
Author: n12614--- via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 20:30:10 +0000 (UTC)
If you go to the ARRL Contest Home Page (http://contests.arrl.org/) you can select public logs and then the contest of choice and they have all (most?) of the Cabrillo files for a contest and you can
I used to publish the VHF Directory where I gathered by hand who was active from where and printed it at a professional printer once a year. That was in the early 90s. I dont know of any complete rec
Author: John Young via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 21:37:30 +0000 (UTC)
A grid map showing the number of active contesting stations in each could be a powerful tool for rovers during route selection or for siting a temporary station to maximize Q's. It would be even mor
Thats why I published the VHF Directory in the 90s as no one knew who to look for in order to work new grids on 2M MS. Its a healthy task when none of the log data was available online as all we had
I have been thinking for a while now about grabbing contest logs for as far back as I can find and importing them all into a database and then doing... something with them. Plotting where they were
Author: Randy Wing via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 22:27:00 +0000 (UTC)
I have built a database of my contacts and others in the midwest. It informs my route. It is considerable work keeping it current. Randy, N0LD I have been thinking for a while now about grabbing co
Another aspect of what your talking about is something that I have always thought would be cool to do with all that data would be to compare as much geophysical data against the log data and plot/obs
Author: John Young via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 14:01:01 +0000 (UTC)
Looking at the scope of the effort it may not be that hard for a single contest. In January there were 918 logs and 62,000 exchanges. If one were to plot the location (6 digit grid) and band capabi
Author: Randy Wing via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:43:48 +0000 (UTC)
Hamstermap.com is a good site for dropping in a formatted set of late longs and getting as many points on a map as possible. I use it to generate my maps for the contest. Sent from Yahoo Mail on And
What is this link, why was it sent, and why should I click on it? What will I see if I go there? Sorry, I don't accept unexplained mystery links, no matter how innocuous the URL might look. You never
The referenced site is a nice effort, but just looking at listings for my own grid which has 5 stations listed, 4 need corrections or deletion. My information is mostly incorrect, W1ALS is silent key
Author: Jeffrey Guenther via VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:53:50 +0000 (UTC)
Paul, I am not an avid contester, but I have been playing in the VHF contest for about 15 years. I am not on the list, but Ken KE3I FM19tm is and he has been SK for at least 10 years give or take.