[VHFcontesting] contest grid activity summaries?

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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
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