How strange that just in the last few days a lot of people have been looking at, and presenting, some SOTA statistics in graphic or tabular form.
I myself was reading a post on this forum last week - I don’t remember the day - and was struck by the idea that a charting app for SOTA contacts might not go amiss. So I played around for a while and came up with this: http://sotamaps.org/stats.php which will show QSOs made by a particular activator (sorry, chasers, haven’t got round to you yet) in a yearly/monthly/daily/hourly fashion.
You start by choosing a callsign and year, and are presented with summaries of the QSOs made in that year, per band per month, and grouped by mode:
If you double-click on a month’s columns, that month’s data will be loaded into the month tab-page; this chart shows QSOs per band per day, grouped by mode:
Double-clicking on a day’s columns will load the day’s QSOs in the day tab-page; these QSOs are ordered by the UTC minute in that particular day.
In all three charts, colours represent different bands, and are the same as those used in the activations page. Navigation in the month and day charts are effected by using the Zoom buttons at the top, or the navigation bar at the bottom of the chart area. Mouse-overs give various levels of information in popup tooltips.
Data for this app, as with the SMP activations page, are derived from a data-dump from the SOTA database, thoughtfully provided last year by Andy MM0FMF. No data more recent than March 2014 are therefore to be found in this app. Hopefully, full access to the SOTA live db (or at least a useable copy of it) will be granted sometime this year…
Oh yes - as with the other SMP pages showing information pertaining to personal activations, you’ll have to login to this new page before you can use it. 'Cos that’s what the MT insists on, and that’s fine by me…
Hoping this appeals to somebody out there,
Rob