[VHFcontesting] contest grid activity summaries?

[N1BUG]

The referenced site is a nice effort, but just looking at listings
for my own grid which has 5 stations listed, 4 need corrections or
deletion. My information is mostly incorrect, W1ALS is silent key,
W1REZ is either silent key or license expired, W1XR station is being
dismantled.

Maintaining a directory and keeping the data up to date is a huge
task, complicated by the fact that only a few active operators will
cooperate in keeping their information updated. I would consider any
such effort pretty much a lost cause these days.

73,
Paul N1BUG



On 8/29/19 11:11 AM, Pierre Jolin (CISSSME16) wrote:
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> ________________________________
> De : VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com> de la part de K7XC Tim Marek <k7xcnv1 at gmail.com>
> Envoyé : 3 juillet 2019 18:15
> À : nosigma nosigma <nosigma at aol.com>
> Cc : vhfcontesting at contesting.com <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>; Alan Larson <wa6azp at gmail.com>
> Objet : Re: [VHFcontesting] contest grid activity summaries?
> 
> Thats why I published the VHF Directory in the 90s as no one knew who to
> look for in order to work new grids on 2M MS.
> Its a healthy task when none of the log data was available online as all we
> had then was Email.
> 
> A modern directory project is long overdue. You could start by asking folks
> to tak an automated online survey and augment that with log, Slack, DX
> Maps, and other sources.
> 
> Its a huge task. Who is up for it? Certainly not me after my last car crsh
> as I am not who I once was. Is anyone up to the task?
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> 73s de Tim - K7XC - DM09jh... sk
> 
> Adapt, Overcome, Succeed!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:37 PM John Young via VHFcontesting <
> vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> A grid map showing the number of active contesting stations in each could
>> be a powerful tool for rovers during route selection or for siting a
>> temporary station to maximize Q's.  It would be even more useful if it
>> identified the number of station active on each band in each grid since
>> that would give a good read on how many multipliers would be possible from
>> a given location and station capability.
>>
>> Of course it would not include stations that did not submit logs unless
>> you used the data on both sides of the QSO, which would include uniques.
>> Uniques would be problematic and skew the data (I typically run 50% to 70%
>> uniques on FM) as they only get on the air because I ask them to.  FM is
>> always sn outlier, I have no idea what the average number of uniques exist
>> in other vhf/uhf logs but I assume it's much much lower.
>>
>> This is a tempting project to undertake.  I love metadata.
>>
>> 73
>> John
>> KM4KMU
>>
>>
>>
>> I love metadata.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 3, 2019 n12614--- via VHFcontesting <n12614 at aol.com>
>> wrote:
>> If you go to the ARRL Contest Home Page (http://contests.arrl.org/) you
>> can select public logs and then the contest of choice and they have all
>> (most?) of the Cabrillo files for a contest and you can do your own
>> analysis. Don, AC5D / EM04  -----Original Message-----
>> From: Alan Larson <wa6azp at gmail.com>
>> To: vhfcontesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
>> Sent: Wed, Jul 3, 2019 3:24 pm
>> Subject: [VHFcontesting] contest grid activity summaries?
>>
>>   Are there any VHF/UHF contest activity summaries by grid?  i.e, a summary
>> of all contacts made from each grid, or a summary of all stations operating
>> from each grid.  (Those are different, in that one very active station
>> would make more contacts that a few casual ones.)  Hopefully, it would be
>> broken down by band.
>>
>>   I suppose if all the logs were processed together this would be possible,
>> but I don't know if anyone does that, or if the results are available if it
>> is done.
>>
>>         Alan