[VHFcontesting] Maps of VHF Contest Activity

[Kenneth E. Harker]

By popular demand, I've made maps for the January and September VHF
contests as well:

http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002janvhf/
http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003janvhf/

http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002junvhf/
http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003junvhf/

http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002sepvhf/
http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003sepvhf/

It's pretty clear from these maps that the June contest is very different
from the January or September contests.



On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:51:49AM -0500, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
>      I have generated maps of the locations of contest participants in the 
> 2002 and 2003 ARRL June VHF QSO Parties.  I start with the tab-delimited 
> scores databsae for the contest, match up callsigns with ZIP codes in the 
> FCC database, and match ZIP codes to lat/lon values.  I'm using the U.S.
> Census Bureau's online Tiger Mapping Server to draw the maps.
> 
>    * These maps only show "lower-48" USA stations.  I wish the U.S. Census
>      Bureau map server would map Canada, but it doesn't.  I could map Hawaii
>      and Alaska as well, but there were no contest entries from those states
>      in 2002 or 2003.
> 
>    * Where an operation takes place from a different location than the 
>      callbook address, I have no easy way to know that is the case, and if I 
>      did, the scores database does not include enough data to map the "real"
>      operation location.  This is only really noticable in the case of a 
>      few well-known multi-op mountain-top stations like K8GP and W2SZ/1.
> 
>    * On the assumption that most SO/P operations are relatively near home -
>      like, in the same state, for example, I am mapping them, even though I
>      know they are almost all not in the exact location of operation.
> 
>    * I am not mapping rover operations.
> 
> http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2002junvhf/
> http://www.wm5r.org/maps/2003junvhf/
> 
> Feedback welcome.
> 
> 
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