[TVARC] FW: [GoFRC] PERIODIC TABLE OF MAJOR AMATEUR RADIO CONTESTS

Sun Dec 13 09:27:20 EST 2020

Very nice.

Now go back to work and make some more QSOs in the contest!

73, Pete, K2PS

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Subject: [TVARC] FW: [GoFRC] PERIODIC TABLE OF MAJOR AMATEUR RADIO CONTESTS

Courtesy of KE2D, here is a nice chart of the major contests for 2021.

73,

George K2DM

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Subject: [GoFRC] PERIODIC TABLE OF MAJOR AMATEUR RADIO CONTESTS

This has been making the rounds for the last couple months and has shown up
here a couple times, I think originally provided by W2GD.  Thank you John.
I've seen in show up in several places online, on the reflectors of other
clubs, on Facebook pages, etc.

I think someone here asked about the original source file in order to get
better resolution and print quality.

I dug around some and could not find the original although I did find a
couple of pretty good .jpg images of it.

Lacking a source file, I decided to remake it myself using Microsoft Excel.

I've made some modifications to it in the process as well as a few minor
corrections.

1.	The PA QSO party has replaced Oceana CW on October 9-10.
2.	I added a cell color-code for weekends with multiple contests.
3.	There are no off-air weekends.  Not even Christmas.
4.	Dayton/Xenia weekend has a contest.  Therefore, the listing for the
Hamvention (and contest U.) has been replaced.
5.	Many of the end times listed gave 00 minutes.  This is very rarely
the case in my experience.  None of the CQ or ARRL contests officially end
at the start of an hour.  They all end at the end of the 59th minute.  Where
I knew these were wrong, I double checked them and corrected them.  I did
not check all contests. The start and end times appear to have been taken
from the WA7BNM website.  Some of the end times giving 00 minutes may be
technically incorrect.

I am unable to give proper attribution to the original author which is
something I would very much like to do.

This is not an original work by my but a mimic of an interesting idea well
executed.

If anyone knows who made the original, please let me know so I can credit
them properly.

At this point, I have no intention of maintaining this in future years but I
could get bored.  We'll see.

Since I'm providing my Excel sheet, anyone could potentially pick this up
and customize, alter, or update it as they see fit.

The second tab in the Excel has a copy of the original JPG image and cells
for templating the shading types.

If anyone sees any errors, please let me know so I can correct them.

Bob - KE2D

P.S.  My wife has a degree in chemistry from Temple University and had a
career as a research chemist in drug discovery for a major pharmaceutical
company before she left to raise our kids.  I accidentally left a proof copy
of this on the kitchen table yesterday.  This morning I found a note on top
of it with large, bold writing that said:  "MAJOR GEEK AWARD".   I could not
argue.

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