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Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: <w2fca@cs.com>
To: <vhfcontesting@contesting.com>
Cc: <vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Re: ARRL VHF Contest
> > "Tim Marek" <timm@cccomm.net> wrote:
> >How about this idea...
> >Get the league to release the ENTIRE log database file per
> >contest to those who participate so we can do our own
> >analysis of activity.
> Frank W2FCA <w2fca@cs.com> Wrote:
> Probably wouldn't happen because of "privacy" issues.
>There are some who consider that giving away their
> competative edge.
Privacy issues? This is a public contest and the results
should be public as well. I want the log to look at activity
on the bands, track Es openings over a known time period
and compare the data against known WX data looking for
possible connections, that kind of thing.
> Also, it might show that K7XXX had 10 bands but only
> worked W8ZZZ from 12 grids and people would start
> yelling about captive rovers and the like.
> And rightfully so! Captive ROVERs are against the entire
> concept of contesting and should be outlawed.
> >Or better yet, since THEY already have that file, they could
> >do the analysis themselves and quit using log submissions as
> >a excuse to "make a case to quit sponsoring the VHF contests".
> If it takes them six months to get the results, where would they
> get the time/resources to do more analysis?
> Frank W2FCA FN22wu
The six months doesnt hold water either. 3 months of that is
publication lead time. 30 days is waiting for logs to come in.
30 days to process the logs and 30 days to prepare the results.
Once that is all done, the master log file is just sitting there,
all the hard work of compiling it already done.
It would take me between a couple weeks to a month to
extrapolate some very meaningful data from that file, and I
work fulltime at a very demanding job for a defense contractor.
The league has people on staff who could probably do it in a
few days of creative database work. The real question is
"Why dont they?"
73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09ol... sk
June 2003 VHF QSO Party - K7XC Single Op - DM17 - ABCDE
Where will you be in June?
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