Topband: A new 160m-only Most Wanted Survey

[Garry Shapiro]

Colleagues,

On the strength of Jon's report below and several before and since, 
please QRX with the survey until this glitch is ironed out. (The several 
entries to the site before release were smooth, including mine, so this 
is an unwelcome surprise. Never happened to me before during my 
engineering career. Well, maybe once or twice...)

Garry, NI6T

On 4/22/2011 2:30 AM, Jon Zaimes AA1K wrote:
> Hi Garry,
>
> After completing the survey and clicking the "submit" button, I got an 
> error page. So don't know if it took it or not.
>
> The page info:
> Site Logo
>
>
>  An error occured while performing the request.
>
> Things to check:
>
>   1.
>
>      Did you complete the Tiki Installer?
> <http://live.semdxa.org/tiki-install.php>
>
>   2.
>
>      Is your database corrupt? Please see how to repair your database
> <http://doc.tiki.org/Repair+Database>
>
>   3.
>
>      Are your database credentials accurate? (username, database name,
>      etc in db/local.php)
>
> Please see the documentation <http://doc.tiki.org/> for more information.
>
>
> ------------------
>
> 73/Jon AA1K
>
>
> On 4/21/2011 21:49 PM, Garry Shapiro wrote:
>> Fellow Topband DXers,
>>
>> A few years ago at Dayton, Eric K3NA and I discussed doing relatively
>> small-scale lowband trips to counters that perhaps had been well-covered
>> by expeditions on the higher bands, but not on the lowest bands.
>>
>> We would need good data for this, but IMO there were no good
>> topband-only Most-Wanted surveys available, so I decided to create one.
>> Not being even a capable amateur programmer, I turned to my friends.
>> KK6EK said he would do it, but Bob then fell in love, got married, and
>> went off into other things. My second partner was willing, but
>> over-committed and dealing with chronic health problems, so that went
>> nowhere, as well. Meanwhile, Eric went off and did Ducie and now plans
>> Jarvis and South Georgia.
>>
>> Recently, I encountered a RTTY Most-Wanted survey written by Larry
>> Gauthier, K8UT that included everything I wanted, so I asked Larry if he
>> could port it to 160m. He agreed and now, after sufficient testing, it
>> is ready to go. It includes all current DXCC counters, and hopefully
>> will encourage some little pistol operations to reasonably reachable
>> counters as well as provide more data for larger, more ambitious
>> DXpeditions.
>>
>> The survey is up at http://topband2011.semdxa.org and I encourage you to
>> take a look---and to submit your needs. Because there are 340 counters,
>> it will take a little while to complete, but the results should justify
>> the effort.
>>
>> I plan to leave the survey up for most of the summer, and to publish the
>> results before the next lowband season--both online and in the amateur
>> press.
>>
>> The more data received, the more accurate the survey will be. Please
>> feel free to suggest additional ways to put this survey before the
>> world's topband DXers. Unfortunately, I have already found that many DX
>> club websites are in a state of neglect, 404-not found, or have no
>> obvious email contact path to the club leadership.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Garry, NI6T
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