[CQ-Contest] Rate meter...

[Ford Peterson]

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 at cmgate.com


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>From Silver Ward" <hwardsil1 at mindspring.com  Mon Jan 21 17:18:19 2002
From: Silver Ward" <hwardsil1 at mindspring.com (Silver Ward)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:18:19 -0000
Subject: [CQ-Contest] What the ARRL Board did
References: <196.1620bd5.297da2fa at aol.com>
Message-ID: <00a101c1a29f$a054db20$b1e6bfa8 at ward>


 > 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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