[NLRS] 10 GHz Cumulative and web page

[Jevon (Jon) Lieberg]

John;

Tried out your spreedsheet for todays total in the 10Ghz contest. Seems
there is a slight problem, the ARRL scoring uses distance in Km, your
spredsheet uses distance in miles for the score!!

Thougth you should know, otherwise seems to work OK.

73's

Jon, K0FQA

----- Original Message -----
From: "John P. Toscano" <tosca005@tc.umn.edu>
To: <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:16 AM
Subject: [NLRS] 10 GHz Cumulative and web page


> I put a new section on the NLRS home page (pretty small so far) on
> 10 GHz topics.  One of its links is to the table of locations I
> mentioned earlier (which has been updated with much of Donn's data).
> I will keep working on it as time permits.
>
> Gary: Thanks for the offer of more data, I will happily add it when
> it arrives.
>
> For computing bearing and distance, there are three tools that I've made
> available before that can be of some assistance to you.  None of them
> is in a form that I would consider "ideal" for the purpose, but any one
> of them easily beats pencil/paper/ruler/calculator.
>
> The Contest Station Locator spreadsheet could be used if you simply
> add the 10 GHz sites in as if they were new operators.  Put the name
> of the location in place of the "operator's callsign" and fill in
> the rest normally.  It requires Microsoft Excel.  :(
>   http://www.tcrc.org/contests/StationLocator.html
>
> The GridLoc program for the Palm Pilot and compatibles can also be
> used.  Unfortunately, the current version lacks the ability to
> store a database of locations/operators, which I hope to add "some
> day".  But in the meantime, it will compute the bearing and distance
> between any two points whose coordinates are known (in most formats,
> i.e. DD:MM:SS, DD:MM.MMM, DD.DDDDD, or 4-digit or 6-digit grid).
>   http://www.tcrc.org/contests/Palm_GridLocator/index.html
>
> There is also an Excel spreadsheet that could help you record your
> logging data for the 10 GHz and Up contest.  One "page" or "tab"
> requires you to enter your data by latitude and longitude in
> degrees and fractions thereof (no DD:MM:SS or DD:MM.MMMM formats),
> which is pretty unfriendly, but the second "page" or "tab" allows
> you to log by 6-digit gridsquare (the most popular way to do it).
> In either case, it does the calculations needed to figure the
> bearing, distance, and score.  Unfortunately, it is pretty
> primitive, won't catch dupes, and doesn't even have a column to
> record the band (for those of you with 24 GHz and up).  But it
> may be better than nothing, if you want to drag a laptop around
> with you.  Of course, pencil and paper work fine for logging
> this contest, but the math is a bit ugly to do by hand.  :(
>   http://www.tcrc.org/contests/10GHz_Logger.xls
>
> As I said earlier, I am available both days, but have no gear except
> for a reasonably sturdy camera tripod (enough for a WBFM horn unit,
> not for a unit with a dish), so I would need to borrow a unit if you
> want my unique call bonus and my measly distance points.
>
> Mike: The telephone liason won't be legal.  Though it's not mentioned
> in the specific rules for the 10 GHz and Up Cumulative Contest, you
> ALSO have to look at the "Rules for Contests Above 50 MHz" and the
> "Rules for All Contests", and in there it clearly mentions no liason
> on non-amateur gear, and no liason on repeaters for contests.  (Links
> to all the rules on the NLRS home page.)
>
> 73 de KB0ZEV
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