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LogView - NEW Contest Log Plotter

Tim Makins (EI8IC) on January 5, 2006
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I am pleased to announce that LogView is now online:

http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/logview/

LogView is a post-contest log-visualisation tool, for analysing contest performance.

It plots the QSOs in a Cabrillo-format contest-log on to one of 8 different maps by finding the position of each QSO from an online database of about 970,000 W/VE callsigns.

You can step through the log manually, or animate the contest at a range of speeds and watch QSOs build up in the order that you made them.

You can annotate each spot with a callsign-label, keep a running count of Multipliers worked, display all or selected bands, compare your QSOs with published contest results, highlight gaps in your antenna coverage, search the log and spotlight results on the map, see position, distance, and bearing information for each QSO, save the map for offline viewing and analysis.

The following contests are supported by LogView: ARRL-10 ARRL-160 ARRL-DX-CW ARRL-DX-SSB ARRL-RTTY ARRL-SS-CW ARRL-SS-SSB ARRL-VHF-JAN ARRL-VHF-JUN ARRL-VHF-SEP ARRL-UHF-AUG CQ-160-CW CQ-160-SSB CQ-WPX-CW CQ-WPX-RTTY CQ-WPX-SSB CQ-VHF CQ-WW-CW CQ-WW-RTTY CQ-WW-SSB IARU-HF NAQP-CW NAQP-RTTY NAQP-SSB RSGB-IOTA STEW-PERRY TARA-RTTY

Try it out now with your latest Sweepstakes log !!

LogView also has a separate, dedicated Results-Viewer, that lets you create a map of the published contest results, and compare them to the results of other contests. See the 'Results' page for further details. There are currently 66 post-2001 contests that you can look at...

73s Tim EI8IC http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/ Ham Map Heaven. Contester Resources. Free zone maps, and contest bandplans The most comprehensive free prefix maps on the web

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LogView - NEW Contest Log Plotter Reply
by w6sj on April 14, 2006 Mail this to a friend!
This is a terrific service for any contester who wishes to "mine" the results of a contest. You can see graphically when and where the other guy is. Give it a trial and you will simply be amazed!

The Top Guns who work 'em all probably can't benefit but the average little pistol will certainly learn fron analyzing contest results.

Considering what we spend in equipment and time to participate in a contest, what's $10 a year to learn a little more about what you did? This service will certianly will help anyone assess his strengths and weaknesses and develop a plan for doing better in the next contest.

Thanks, Tim.
 
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