[VHFcontesting] No Operators or NO Logs ??? (Was Too Many Contests?)

[R Johnson]

Hi Tom Ev, Ken et al:

I think it would be an interesting experiment for the League to extract
ALL of the callsigns from ALL of the logs Received for an individual contest,
say JAN 2004 VHF SS.

Then compare the list of callsigns extracted against the list of Logs Received.

This might provide a better handle on the question of "Lack of Participation" or
"Lack of Log Submission".

This could be the same software that K5ZD uses to create the "master.dta" for the
SCP (Super Check Partial)for the HF contests or what K1TR uses to create the SCP
file for the VHF/UHF contests.

This could be repeated for other VHF+ contests and the results compared.

It would be interesting to see the ratio of Callsigns to Log Submitted !!

Just a thought,

73 Bob, K1VU

At 17:58 7/21/2004 , Tom Frenaye wrote:
>At 05:29 PM 7/21/2004, Ev Tupis/W2EV wrote:
> >Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> >>The ARRL June VHF QSO Party is _the_ premier VHF+ competition of the year
> >>for North America.  It sees _by far_ the most operations of any VHF+ competition all year long.
> >
> >From: http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/
> >
> >June VHF QSO Party 2003: 818 Logs Submitted
> >June VHF QSO Party 2004: 620 Logs Submitted
>
>620 is not the final number.  Paper logs are not included yet, for example.  725 is a good estimate to use.
>
> >                         ---
> >                         719 Average over the past two years
>
>771 average
>
> >January VHF Sweepstakes 2003: 798 Logs Submitted
> >January VHF Sweepstakes 2004: 834 Logs Submitted
> >                              ---
> >                              816 Average over the past two years
> >
> >The January VHF Sweepstakes wins..."by far".
>
>They are pretty close.
>
>Compared to 1996 the number of logs in June has dropped by 20% but in January the drop is 50%   Hard to figure why there is so much of a difference.
>
>              -- Tom
>
>
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