[VHFcontesting] Most wanted grids

[kb8u vhf]

I think the best way to generate a most wanted grid list would be to make it as easy as possible for participants to enter data.  The majority of hams aren't going to bother compiling a list, let alone updating it.

I'm thinking along the lines of a program that would slurp in entire logs and figure out which are the needed grids for the operator.  That way they'd only have to upload a log file from their PC

The problem is that each log program is going to format the data a little differently, even if you ask everybody to send in an .adif or a cabrillo log.

Russ  KB8U

> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:53:36 -0500
> From: "Mike (KA5CVH) Urich" <mike at ka5cvh.com>
> To: "(Radio) VHF Contesting" <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] Most wanted grids
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> Has anyone done an update to the most wanted grids survey that was
> done a few years ago?
> 
> The reason I'm asking is that my son is a programmer and I asked him
> how difficult it would be for users to enter up to 10 of the most
> wanted grids.  The biggest problem that I see is that most likely no
> one would go in and clear out grids once they have confirmed them.
> 
> He said that such a database is easy to do and also agrees that the
> only way to make an online database like that to work is to have it
> automatically purge,  something like one year after a grid was
> entered.  This would require everyone once a year update their list.
> Personally I don't see that as a big deal but I know how hams will
> bitch about the most mundane tasks.
> 
> Anyway I was just curious since some of the really rare ones have been
> activated over the past 5 years I was wondering how that old map would
> look now.
> 
> -- 
> Mike Urich KA5CVH