[VHFcontesting] Historical contest dates

[John (JK) Kalenowsky, K9JK]

Ken, (and VHFContesting readers)

If the reference to "ARRL Spring Sprints" means the VHF & Up Spring Sprints 
(AND I believe that the "ETDXA Spring Sprints" MUST be referring to VHF & 
Up), I am actually WORKING on that "right now". I'm actually OCRing Results 
from QST and NCJ so I should untilmately be able to provide Score Results 
back to 1983.

So, for ARRL _VHF & Up_ Spring Sprints (from 1983 through 1998) and for 
ETDXA Spring Sprints (from 2000 through 2005, and 2006 results when they 
become available), consider ME the volunteer. ALSO, I have data for 4 of 5 
events in 1999 when the individual events were managed by five separate 
clubs/persons/entities (woking on the 5th).

73, JK


>From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
>To: VHF Contesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
>Subject: [VHFcontesting] Historical contest dates
>Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:41:50 -0800
>
>      The Contest Scores Database (http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/scoredb/) now
>has 365,311 line scores from over 40 different amateur radio competitions.
>In a few cases, we have every line score ever in a contest (ARRL 10, ARRL 
>RTTY,
>Stew Perry, and the Asia-Pacific Sprints) and in others we have line scores
>from the past decade or most of the past decade.
>
>      In an effort to make the data more interesting, we are looking at 
>ways
>to include metadata about the contests and/or the state of the world when
>the contests were taking place.  We've started by loading historical
>solar data (solar flux, sunspot count, Kp indices, Ap indices).  We will
>soon be able, for example, to include solar flux numbers with the ARRL 10
>Meter Contest records, so you can see what the sun was doing the year a
>record was set.  Or we might chart the solar flux against the high QSO 
>total
>for each year.  There are all sorts of possibilities.  For VHF+ contests, 
>we
>might (if the data is available) do something similar with moon data or
>meteor counts.
>
>      One of the things we need to make this happen is data on the specific
>times each contest took place each year.  For some contests this is easy to
>compute, as the contest always falls on the nth weekend of the month 
>between
>certain times.  For other contests this formula for determining the days is
>more of a pain, or has changed over time.  I'm looking for a volunteer to
>research the specific contest dates for VHF contests.  You'll probably need
>either paper copies of the magazines or a set of QST CD-ROMs to go back 
>very
>far.  We could use dates for the following contests (you don't have to
>volunteer for all of them :-):
>
>ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes
>ARRL June VHF QSO Party
>ARRL September VHF QSO Party
>ARRL August UHF Contest
>ARRL 10 GHz and Up Cumulative Contest
>ARRL International EME Contest
>ARRL Spring Sprints
>ETDXA Spring Sprints
>SMIRK Contest
>CQ VHF Contest
>
>      Some of these contests have multiple weekends, and we'd like the 
>times
>for each weekend in those cases.  I'm looking for data like this, as far
>back in time as we can get it:
>
>ARRL	June VHF QSO Party	2006	1	2006-06-10 18:00:00	2007-06-12 03:00:00
>ARRL	June VHF QSO Party	2007	1	2007-06-09 18:00:00	2007-06-11 03:00:00
>
>      Any volunteers?
>
>--
>Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
>kenharker at kenharker.com
>http://www.kenharker.com/
>
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