[NLRS] 75 Ghz

[John P. Toscano]

Barry Malowanchuk wrote:
> 
> I got a reply from K2DH as follows:
> 
> Barry-
> Thanks for your note.
> I did some further investigation into the 75GHz question, and found out the
> following:  The ARRL DID screw up our line scores in the January VHF SS, but
> only in the Web-based listing of results.  It seems that 75GHz is band "L"
> in their new designations, but band "L" used to be Laser Light.  We have a
> number of people active on Lasers and they turned in scores for band "L".
> The QST results correctly stated this, but when ARRL transcribed the line
> scores to the Web, they didn't check on that little fact, so all our Laser
> QSO's show up as 75GHz QSO's (I guess Laser is now "P" band).  That's why
> there was confusion- I'll state it again- there is no one in the RVHFG
> currently active or planning activity on 75GHz.
> 73

I got my information from the following location:
  http://www.arrl.org/members-only/contests/scores.html?con_id=9

This is the new "Interactive Contest Scores" web page.  From it, I
downloaded the entire data set that ARRL makes available as a CSV
format file, which I imported into Excel for analysis.  The results
of my work with Excel can be found on the NLRS web page at:
  http://nlrs.dropboxone.net/ContestScores/ARRL-ContestData.xls

>From this, I used the AutoFilter and sort tools to see where the
75 GHz activity was coming from, since there seemed to be a
disproportionalely high number of 75 GHz contacts in the January
2002 VHF Sweepstakes.

The operators that came out of that analysis that were listed
as members of the Rochester VHF Group were:
W2FU
N2PA
N2JMH
K2TER
WO2P
N2KXS
N2OPW
N2IM
N2UIO

According to the analysis, these 9 operators made 117 of 201
contacts, in 39 of 71 grids, in the January 2002 VHF SS, for
noticeably over 50% of the activity measured either way, on
the 75 GHz band.

Unfortunately, the old adage, "Garbage In, Garbage Out"
still applies.  If the ARRL screwed up the data, I guess
my analysis is for naught.  Or not, I guess that together
we may have been the first to discover a major error in the
web data that ARRL needs to fix. . .

Send my regards to David.  I wish I had been introduced to
Ham Radio back when I was living in Rochester, but I was,
oddly, completely oblivious to the hobby at the time.

73 de KB0ZEV