[NLRS] VHF Contest log submission trends

Fri Sep 17 19:34:26 EDT 2010

And one more thing regarding September 2008...as Todd, KC9BQA, 
shared with me (which helped me remember) and I was somewhat 
able to 'confirm' in my data (which includes the Division 
breakdowns), the remnants of Hurricane Ike were a factor for 
that contest, dropping the log counts from West Gulf (15 in 2008 
vs. 30 in 2007) and Delta Division (10 in 2008 vs. 20 in 2007) 
by half and in Central Division (39 in 2008 vs. 60 in 2007) by 
1/3.

Paul...thanks for making the Google Spreadsheet, I'll take a 
look at it to see if I have some more data to add to what you 
added.

73, JK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <w0zq at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 17:32
Subject: Re: [NLRS] VHF Contest log submission trends

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> Regarding the UHF contest, I have a slide on this topic that 
> goes back to the contests beginning in 1978.  From 1978 to 
> 1992 there was no growth in logs with the number of submitted 
> logs bouncing between 108 and 173.  In 1993 the ARRL pushed 
> activity with a pins program that generated 223 logs and in 
> 1994 there was a really good tropo opening that generated 249 
> logs.  From 1994 to 1998 the number of logs slowly declined to 
> 164 in '98.  1999 had another "lets get the guys on" push by 
> the League that resulted in 249 longs.  However, from 1999 to 
> 2003 logs again slowly decreased with only 140 logs in '03 and 
> that resulted in the serious discussion about eliminating this 
> contest and the resulting birth of Rovermania (locally). 
> Since 2003 there has been a steady yearly increase in logs 
> with the exception of 2007.   Here are the counts 2003 (140), 
> 2004 (169), 2005 (183), 2006 (191), 2007 (166), 2008 (194), 
> and 2009 (244).   The three peak years have been 1994 (249 - 
> big tropo), 19
> 99 (249- League push), and 2009 (244).
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> Regarding the 10 GHz & Up Contest, this one started in 1986 as 
> 10gig only.  The "And Up" was added 1996.   Starting in 1986, 
> here are the number of logs submitted - 52, 56, 54, 49, 77, 
> 68, 71, 83, 80, 75, 78, 80, 69, 76, 92, 120, 134, 141, 136, 
> 131, 115, 113, 103, 107.   In terms of number of logs, the 
> peak year was 2003 and the trend has been downward since then.
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> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Husby <husby002 at gmail.com>
> To: NRLS Reflector <nlrs at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 4:36 pm
> Subject: [NLRS] VHF Contest log submission trends
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> I have added to K9JK's data on log submissions, and put it on 
> another
> roup spreadsheet at:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvU0R8d2qq2DdFEtemRHdTNiQk9aSFNPa2lMUlE4WkE&hl=en&authkey=CJ398NcH
> I have breakdowns for UHF and Sept contests, and for Dakota, 
> Central and
> idwest divisions.  For the 10GHz contest I put in what I 
> thought were
> he entries from the local group;  the ARRL database is a 
> little flaky
> n returning results for 10G and I was a bit unsure sometimes 
> separating
> he CO entries from the MN entries.
> I annotated in color a couple of significant events, and put 
> ??? for
> ome interesting numbers that need explanation; having been 
> inactive
> hose years, I'm not sure where propagation events or major 
> roving
> fforts are the cause.  Fill them in if you know what went on! 
> Also,
> aybe someone could annotate the 10G years and show where major 
> roving
> as involved.
> There seems to be no consistent trend for Sept and UHF, so I 
> would guess
> he changes are probably related to roving activity and 10G 
> Contest
> oving.  I do know that the drop from '09 to '10 in both UHF 
> and Sept is
> oing to be very large.
> 73,
> aul W0UC
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