I always ask that people enter as much of the QSO data that they can from their SOTA activations and chases even if these QSOs don’t count for points. The reason is that it gives us more data to use. Use for what you may ask? Well there are lots of quite cool visualisation tools about. One of which is “Many Eyes” from IBM.
I did a quick sift through the S2S data and counted the number of S2S QSOs that have been logged for each SOTA summit. There are about 4300 summits where there are 1 or more S2S QSOs logged. Then I found the top 100 summits by QSO count and pushed the QSO count and summit name to Many Eyes.
If you follow this link you can visit a dynamic display of summits and QSO count. You will need to have Java installed on your PC for the visualisation to display. You can hover over the coloured bubbles and you’ll see the summit name and the QSO count. Cool stuff, well I think so
In reply to MM0FMF:
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Very nice, Andy. World number one, by a large margin, is a few blocks from my house. Go, Yanks, go. Outshine the Tor. Tote that bail…lift that barge.
It’s a little present for me, as today is my birthday.
In reply to MM0FMF:
Hi Andy,
VERY interesting. I see some of the data in the bubble is repeated. Could this area be used to show the number of S2S involving other regions and/or other countries?
I couldn’t find the highland lassies dancing in their kilts. Must be a problem with my browser or perhaps the security people blocked it.
An interesting observation. The S2S data is a bit bland, there’s a few summits with a large number of S2S QSOs logged, quite a few summits with many QSOs and most summits have a slack handful or so. The vast majority have less than 5 logged. The data shows the total count but not count by activator. A few summits have regular activators who are out for 12m challenge or S2S contacts primarily or not motivated by points in general. As such they skew the results. Or we don’t have enough activators in GM who keep activating the same summit. So we’re off the map.
What it shows is… I don’t know, I was playing with visualisation tools! The more I play with the database the more I learn. Not just about how they (databases) work, but you need to ask the right questions to get the right answers! I often don’t know what I want to find out but the pretty pictures are nice too look at the end.
In reply to MM0FMF:
Oh, I can see various ways that visualisation could expand. Next step would be to show the summits contacted from each summit, I guess…
In reply to MM0FMF:
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Very nice, Andy. World number one, by a large margin, is a few blocks
from my house. Go, Yanks, go. Outshine the Tor. Tote that
bail…lift that barge.
It’s a little present for me, as today is my birthday.
If I hadn’t been so busy attempting to lift that barge, I would have wished you a happy birthday - I hope you had a great day anyway!
