I use logger for my contest logging. I use Excel to crunch the numbers into
Cabrillo.
I was looking at my NAQP log on Sunday and wanted to come up with a "rate
meter" for the log to review my performance. I put it on a graph in Excel
to show the "rate" on the y axis and freq on the x. I've got a nifty rate
meter for me, but I wonder if there is a standard nomenclature. For
example:
Listening to chatter on this reflector and others, I hear people refer to
"rate went over 200" and "I really pushed it to get the rate meter over 4."
While I can speculate what they are referring to (they are obviously
different measures), I want to use a standard measure.
I am thinking about taking the time to book the previous 20 Qs, and
calculate the rate per minute. E.g. 20 Qs in 8 minutes is 2.5 per minute.
Using 10 Qs made the graph swing wildly. Using 50 Qs smoothed out the graph
quite a bit.
If anybody can shed light on this, I'd appreciate it.
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
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>From Silver Ward" <hwardsil1@mindspring.com Mon Jan 21 17:18:19 2002
From: Silver Ward" <hwardsil1@mindspring.com (Silver Ward)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] What the ARRL Board did
References: <196.1620bd5.297da2fa@aol.com>
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> Perhaps by then, people
> will have a chance to cool down, get the information they need, and maybe
> even feel comfortable that this is actually a good thing.
Oh come now - this is the Internet. Cooling down and getting information is
SO twentieth century.
73, Ward N0AX
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