I'm interested in doing an experiment with the continental breakdown
files from this season's contests (CQ WW, ARRL DX, WPX SSB). These are
the short files with the continents listed and a percentage of your total
QSOs for each. All the major logging programs generate them.
Send me your files, labelled by contest and including your STATE. Then
I'll generate both a list and a US/VE map showing the average percentage
of EU and AS QSOs for each state. I don't know if I'll be able to do it
on a contest-by-contest basis...depends on how much data I get.
This will be published in "CQ Contest" later this year. Hopefully, it
will be straightforward enough to "nearly" automate, so it could be done
regularly. This might be a good thing to review to see whether you're
making more or less QSOs with the target areas than the average from your
state. Also, it will be interesting to see the percentages change across
the NA continent. Over time, it will also be neat to watch the
percentages ebb and flow with solar conditions.
Again - I just need your continental percentage breakdown files - DON'T
send me your rate or summary or dupe sheets. DO add your state to the
top of the file. i.e., Add "CQ WW CW 1995, N0AX, WA" as the first line
of the file. I'm looking for data from CQ WW 95, ARRL DX 96, and CQ WPX
SSB 96.
Thanks in advance!
73, Ward N0AX
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