Current log checking software takes literally 2-3 minutes to fully process a
few thousand logs with a few million QSOs, including all the results tables. A
moderate performance office PC is sufficient. Cleaning up log errors takes
hundreds of volunteer hours before the final minutes-long computer run. And,
of course, gathering photos and information to create the results article is
time-consuming.Log checking software is custom-created and supported by a few
very smart volunteers. Running time is inconsequential in the overall contest
results process.73,Ed W0YK
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Dyer via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest@contesting.com> Date: 8/16/21 05:19 (GMT-08:00) To:
cq-contest@contesting.com Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Forum topic These days
that's a pretty small data set. It fits in memory easily and if I recall, each
complete run only takes a minute or two. I saw a presentation about it
somewhere from K5ZD.This is not trivializing the programming, it's just not a
scale problem anymore.73,SteveW1SRDOn 8/15/2021 14:54, Richard F DiDonna NN3W
wrote:> Has anyone ever done a Dayton forum or online forum on contest log>
checking? In briefly chatting with KL9A regarding the number of logs that> get
submitted (over 1,000 in some NAQP events), it dawned on me that it> requires a
little computing power to have a database of 2,500,000 QSOs> (assuming 1,000
logs with an average of 250 QSOs per log for NAQP) or a> database of 25,000,000
QSOs (assuming 5,000 logs and an average of 500 QSOs> per log for CQWW).>> How
long does the log checking actually take and what database programs are> used
these days?>> 73 Rich NN3W> _______________________________________________>
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