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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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker@kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/
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