How about results on CDROM?

[W5XD at delphi.com]

The QSL vs. contest log entry discussion deflected around a subject that
interested me before skipping off into the deep weeds (satellite recorders,
etc.) A CDROM at 600MB could hold the log entries for roughly 20x10E6 QSOs
uncompressed at 30 bytes each. That should be more than enough to hold
all the logs submitted for any major contest, and maybe more.

I would be willing to pay $20 or $30 for a CD containing all the logs
submitted to, say, Sweepstakes, CQWW, ARRL DX, etc. I haven't been around
the prices in the last few years (help me out somebody?) but I believe that
CD's can be published these days for under $20 each in quantities well
under 1000. With compression and a little imagination, it might be possible
to get several contests on a CD. I'd want it to be published within 8 to
12 months of the contest--sooner if possible.

I am still facinated by the E skip propagation study published in QST a
few years back that was based on logs submitted to a VHF contest that
happened to have coincided with unusual ionospheric activity. Lots of
propagation studies, contest strategy analysis, etc. could use hard data
like this. Everybody likes Tree's post-contest Internet sprint analysis,
and this would make lots more of that possible.

I see a problem with the contest sponsors, though. I think they would
be disinclined to open all logs to the public record because there would
be endless opportunity to second guess their ability to check logs. I
hope we could get agreement that contesting is like any officiated sport:
the officiating is part of the game and even if the instant replay says
the touchdown shouldn't count, what the official saw, or thought he saw,
is what actually determines the outcome.

How many of you out there have CDROM drives on your computers? Probably
even less than the number that run Windows...and I know that's the minority
of you :)

Wayne, W5XD

>From H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil at seattleu.edu  Sat Feb 12 23:24:17 1994
From: H. Ward Silver" <hwardsil at seattleu.edu (H. Ward Silver)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 15:24:17 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Lunatic Fringe
Message-ID: <Pine.3.07.9402121517.A21770-9100000 at bach>

Final list for the loony bin @ 2330 Saturday:
K7SS, W7WA, N7LOX, N0AX, K7LR, AA7RN, WA7FOE, WA0RJY, NL7GP, VE7NTT
Only I can't tell if AA7RN is going to use K7RI or AA7RN and I can't get
ahold of him this afternoon |:-(
73, Ward N0AX
Shepherd of Lunatics



>From robert penneys <penneys at freezer.cns.udel.edu>  Sun Feb 13 04:37:19 1994
From: robert penneys <penneys at freezer.cns.udel.edu> (robert penneys)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 23:37:19 EST
Subject: Some early NERDS results
Message-ID: <9402130437.AA08816 at freezer.cns.udel.edu>


Well, we had ten on and I worked all but one of the guys.

Team was K5ZD, WA4PGM, K7SV, KE3Q, WB2DIN, NY3C, KA4RRU, KI4HN, WN3K, and the one I missed, NY3Y.

KA4RRU		154 x 41	6314
WA4PGM		226 x 45       10170
KE3Q		200 x 44	8800
WN3K		148 x 40	5920

Six more to go.  

I had almost terminal RF getting into computer on 40 and arcing the tuner
on 40 and 80. What a pain.

Great fun and tnx all. GO N.E.R.D.S.!!!

>From Richard Hallman <0006135537 at mcimail.com>  Sun Feb 13 04:39:00 1994
From: Richard Hallman <0006135537 at mcimail.com> (Richard Hallman)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 94 23:39 EST
Subject: Sprint Score SSB
Message-ID: <53940213043935/0006135537NA3EM at mcimail.com>

Sprint Score Feb SSB......

  295 X 51 = 15,045


  Started 10 minutes late due to blown radiator hose on truck on the
way home from work!    Oh well.......

            Rich  KI3V/7  Reno Nevada!