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CARC WSPR Competition update 19-February-2016

19th February 2016 By Crawley ARC Leave a Comment

With 10 days to go including today, I though I would start the daily report with some more global statistics.

The size of the WSPR spots file is now a tad under 700MB. It contains 8,255,358 spots by 2596 observers, some of whom are on multiple bands giving rise to 6706 band observers, who are spread as follows:

2200m observbers =  96
630m observbers  =  365
160m observbers  =  369
80m observbers   =  617
60m observbers   =  200
40m observbers   =  1088
30m observbers   =  1074
20m observbers   =  1249
17m observbers   =  341
15m observbers   =  428
12m observbers   =  132
10m observbers   =  517
6m observbers    =  119
4m observbers    =  4
2m observbers    =  77
70cm observbers  =  19
23cm observbers  =  11

There are 593 observations (individual reporst) that I have not been able to allocate to a band, and so have excluded from any analysis (or your scores).

Countries that heard us are
Argentina, Asiatic Russia, Australia, Austria, Balearic Is., Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Canary Is., Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, European Russia, Falkland Is., Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, French Guiana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Puerto Rico, Reunion I., Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wales,

I wrote some code yesterday that looked at the distribution of countries of the observers that had seen our transmissions, and it looks as follows:

Federal Republic of Germany  :  201
England                      :  189
United States of America     :  172
Netherlands                  :  91
France                       :  53
Italy                        :  49
Australia                    :  40
European Russia              :  32
Switzerland                  :  27
Scotland                     :  23
Spain                        :  22
Finland                      :  22
Austria                      :  21
Poland                       :  19
Sweden                       :  19
Denmark                      :  19
Belgium                      :  18
Norway                       :  17
Canada                       :  17
Ukraine                      :  9
Czech Republic               :  9
Wales                        :  8
Greece                       :  8
Japan                        :  8
Asiatic Russia               :  7
New Zealand                  :  5
Estonia                      :  5
Ireland                      :  5
Northern Ireland             :  4
Romania                      :  4
Balearic Is.                 :  3
Belarus                      :  3
Hungary                      :  3
Iceland                      :  3
Thailand                     :  2
Canary Is.                   :  2
Israel                       :  2
South Africa                 :  2
Brazil                       :  2
Slovenia                     :  2
Luxembourg                   :  2
Malta                        :  1
Kazakhstan                   :  1
Turkey                       :  1
Uruguay                      :  1
Venezuela                    :  1
Serbia                       :  1
French Guiana                :  1
Bermuda                      :  1
Reunion I.                   :  1
Puerto Rico                  :  1
Bosnia-Herzegovina           :  1
Kaliningrad                  :  1
Falkland Is.                 :  1
Slovak Republic              :  1
Bulgaria                     :  1
Argentina                    :  1
Gibraltar                    :  1
Greenland                    :  1

The current scores as of today are:

G0KCH Score = CQ zones x band slots = 616
Countries (Entities) heard in = 27 Band slots = 77 CQ zones = 8
Bands Operated  = 7
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 3957

G3NZP Score = CQ zones x band slots = 594
Countries (Entities) heard in = 30 Band slots = 54 CQ zones = 11
Bands Operated  = 8
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 27: 15141

G3RMK Score = CQ zones x band slots = 2567
Countries (Entities) heard in = 45 Band slots = 151 CQ zones = 17
Bands Operated  = 11
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 77036

G3VJM Score = CQ zones x band slots = 120
Countries (Entities) heard in = 20 Band slots = 24 CQ zones = 5
Bands Operated  = 5
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 4147

G3YSX Score = CQ zones x band slots = 2400
Countries (Entities) heard in = 36 Band slots = 150 CQ zones = 16
Bands Operated  = 10
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 10059

G4ANN Score = CQ zones x band slots = 320
Countries (Entities) heard in = 32 Band slots = 32 CQ zones = 10
Bands Operated  = 1
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 2529

G4FYY Score = CQ zones x band slots = 248
Countries (Entities) heard in = 31 Band slots = 31 CQ zones = 8
Bands Operated  = 1
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 1553

G4PEO Score = CQ zones x band slots = 621
Countries (Entities) heard in = 28 Band slots = 69 CQ zones = 9
Bands Operated  = 6
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 2417

G4PFW Score = CQ zones x band slots = 198
Countries (Entities) heard in = 26 Band slots = 33 CQ zones = 6
Bands Operated  = 4
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 1890

G7OBF Score = CQ zones x band slots = 22
Countries (Entities) heard in = 11 Band slots = 11 CQ zones = 2
Bands Operated  = 1
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 83

GX3WSC Score = CQ zones x band slots = 6006
Countries (Entities) heard in = 53 Band slots = 231 CQ zones = 26
Bands Operated  = 10
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 27: 22638

M0HQM Score = CQ zones x band slots = 138
Countries (Entities) heard in = 23 Band slots = 23 CQ zones = 6
Bands Operated  = 1
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 30: 1652

M0TZZ Score = CQ zones x band slots = 2192
Countries (Entities) heard in = 40 Band slots = 137 CQ zones = 16
Bands Operated  = 10
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 17859

M0WID Score = CQ zones x band slots = 3059
Countries (Entities) heard in = 46 Band slots = 161 CQ zones = 19
Bands Operated  = 10
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 23: 33523, 17: 1, 37: 1

VK6PG Score = CQ zones x band slots = 12
Countries (Entities) heard in = 3 Band slots = 3 CQ zones = 4
Bands Operated  = 1
Number of times reported at following power in dBm 37: 70, 33: 10

Number of observers that heard us = 1167
Total countries worked 60

Finally, I remain concerned at the discrepancy between my previous total country count and the current one, so I am looking for someone to check the allocation of callsign to country in the observers file. 

I am also concerned that we need to go through the 172 US callsigns and make sure that are in the correct zone. If I get a minute, I will write some code to use large Maidenhead squares (IO, JO, IN etc) in place of CQWW zones and see if that changes anything. I can automate the process of using Maidenhead squares, and apart from making things easier, it will remove human error at least determination of which zone a callsign is in.

73

Stewart/G3YSX

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