I am writing an article on QRP contesting. For that
article, I have compiled an excel spreadsheet
containing all QRP line scores in the ARRL contests
going back to 1986. The spreadsheet contains 1300+
line scores, 560+ individual operators, 8.7 + Million
points, etc. The final article will contain a whole
horde of such numerical info, as well as noting some
interesting trends and history of the QRP category.
As part of the verification process on the data input,
I am asking for the assistance of anyone on this
reflector who has ever run the QRP category in any
ARRL VHF contest. I am interested in verifying both
large and small scores. Even if you only had a couple
of hundred QRP points in one single contest, I want to
verify your score and call-sign external of my own
efforts. Such external verification straight from the
operator's own notes is a most important step at
determining the overall accuracy of the data, as well
as estimating an error rate to the data.
Please give me any call-signs that you submitted
scores under, and I will give you the output for all
lines scores, sections, and contest dates that I think
you ran in. Then, if you could be so kind as to
double-check your own records and let me know if I am
right or not on the data, I would greatly appreciate
your efforts.
As an example of the output of the spreadsheet, I ran
my own call-sign through the spreadsheet, and it
generated the following info.
Call Sec. Year Jan June Sept Total Logs
W9GKA IL 1998 22,515 22,515 1
W9GKA IL 1999 518 8,320 8,838 2
W9GKA IL 2000 7,198 7,198 1
W9GKA IL 2001 3,072 3,072 1
W9GKA IL 2002 7,865 7,865 1
W9GKA IL 2003 7,065 5,192 12,257 2
Ttl, all yrs 7,583 48,970 5,192 61,745 8
Ttl, last 5 7,583 26,455 5,192 39,230 7
Place, all yrs 34 out of 562
Place, last 5 years 16 out of 169
You can reply directly to my e-mail address. Thank
you so much.
Kevin Kaufhold
W9GKA
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