Cool.
I've played around with the QST on CD-ROM trying to see if it would be useful
for extracting old line scores into computer-readable format. When I tried it
a few years ago, my conclusion was that the resolution of the scans on the
CD-ROMs were not adequate for OCR. In fact, some of the line scores from the
ARRL 10 Meter Contest in the 70s were so small in print and the scans were of
such low resolution that you actually could not read the scores, let alone
OCR them. It appears that the QST archive online are these same, relatively
low-res scans (I think they are 200 dpi or less). You can see what I mean
(assuming you have an ARRL login) in these line scores:
http://p1k.arrl.org/cgi-bin/topdf.cgi?id=70267&pub=qst
It would be great if older QSTs could be re-scanned at higher resolution,
and maybe OCR'd at the same time, but certainly this is a great resource
to have available online nonetheless.
As for a favorite contesting article, I vote for this one from 1991:
http://p1k.arrl.org/cgi-bin/topdf.cgi?id=86285&pub=qst
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:26:09PM -0600, Steve London wrote:
> Check this out:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/09/09/10322/
>
> I would love to see nominations for the 20 best contest-related QST articles
> of
> all time....
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
>
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