Hi Rick and the group,
Your welcome! I figured this would be the best way to get a rough idea of what grids are being searched for by people who have been working the birds for some time. At least it's a baseline and something to build on for the future. This data can be used for those who travel, for business or so, plan a trip to a relative or vacation, or the GriDXpeditioners.
Your view about "why am I standing out in the dark waging this antenna and can't even hear a complete call" is thought provoking. The simple answer is no matter who's out there providing new grid or new state, we all enjoy and share the same thing together. Chances are if you knew there would be nobody on the birds, would you bother doing it? No. However, you know that there will be people on the birds and you know your going to get calls, albeit, through a lot of confusion! So we keep doing the same thing because basically we enjoy it. Sure, there are times we all get frustrated and angry but that shouldn't stop us from enjoying it, it's just another challange to overcome.
I've copied a number of "fresh" calls over the past couple of weeks, and they also provided many with new grids, and I'm glad to see more trying out the birds. These people will experience the same thing that all of us do on the same passes of the birds. They will question themselves on why they are doing this as well with the intent of either sticking with it or letting it go to the wayside. We all have to be there to help them along so they understand that each pass can beexciting or a surprise waiting to happen.
The two best examples that happened to me was when I wasn't sure if I wanted to work a pass before heading off to work. I decided in favor to work it. What happens? Patrick, WD9EWK, decides to drive to Delaware, unannounced if I recall correctly, to not only activate a rare state, but a new grid for many as well! Second example. I was working AO-51 one evening pass, made a couple basic QSOs then out of the blue VE8EV calls me! We exchanged info and a mini pileup ensued.
In any case, let's just keep having fun and doing the best we can with what we have.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick - WA4NVM" wa4nvm@comcast.net To: "Jeff Yanko" wb3jfs@cox.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Top 250 Grid Survey - Results
Jeff,
Thanks for the hard work gathering all the information. Now, if we can get some "roadtrip warriors" to work these grids and the opportunity to get into the birds, (hint) we can all make use of your list. I hope I didn't ruffle any feathers, but sometimes an operator can't help but wonder, "why am I standing out in the dark waging this antenna and can't even hear a complete call".
Since we have a lot of new operators, please help support AMSAT-NA and the other organizations to get more birds launched. More birds = more minutes to work a bird, I hope less congestion if the future.
73 to all, Rick - WA4NVM
Hi all,
I want to thank all of those who took the time out to contribute their grid data so I could try to compose a list of the most wanted, or needed, grid squares via the satellites for the continental United States with some Canadian and Mexico grids thrown in as well. I initially started out with the total 250, 10 grid fields times the 25 most needed grid squares per field, hence 250. I should've taken into account that grid fields like CM and FM aren't fully land mass enough to give a full 25 grids so it looks like the 250 will become the top 230. In any case, the data was very useful and informative. I believe many will see what grids are outstanding in need of activation.
Since I did not receive any more entries since Thursday, 11/12, I already had a running tally of the totals as I was receiving them and was waiting for more to come in by the deadline of 11/14. None did, so I was able to cap this project about a day ahead of schedule. I hope everybody enjoys the data and can possibly use it in the future if they plan on traveling, visting relatives, or just going on a GridDXpedition.
I broke down the grid fields by the most votes then proceeded to seperately post the grid squares of each field by their votes, highest to lowest. The layout is rather long but since this is just basic data I wanted to keep it simple and left justified to keep it clear. Printing it out may make it easier to read or comprehend since you won't be looking at just a portion of the data on the screen but a print out on paper layed out on the table.
If you have a questions, comments or just plain curious, please feel free to drop me an e-mail.
73,
Jeff WB3JFS Las Vegas, NV DM26
GRID FIELD TALLY:
DN - 469 EN - 322 DM - 308 EM - 213 EL - 173 CN - 172 FN - 127 DL - 90 FM - 63 CM - 39
///CN///
9 VOTES CN70 CN72 CN73 CN98
8 VOTES CN71 CN77 CN78 CN90 CN91 CN93 CN96
7 VOTES CN74 CN80 CN81 CN82 CN92 CN99
6 VOTES CN94
5 VOTES CN75 CN83
4 VOTES CN76 CN95 CN97
2 VOTES CN85 CN86
///DN///
10 VOTES DN02
9 VOTES DN03 DN10 DN37
8 VOTES DN04 DN12 DN21 DN75
7 VOTES DN05 DN11 DN24 DN60 DN62 DN67 DN68 DN73 DN77 DN78
6 VOTES DN07 DN19 DN20 DN25 DN28 DN29 DN34
///EN///
8 VOTES EN48
7 VOTES EN08
6 VOTES EN01 EN02 EN10 EN12 EN13 EN17 EN24 EN36 EN46 EN47
5 VOTES EN03 EN05 EN07 EN16 EN33 EN40 EN49 EN58 EN66 EN67
4 VOTES EN09 EN15
///FN///
5 VOTES FN24 FN55
3 VOTES FN06 FN14 FN17 FN23 FN27 FN28 FN37 FN38 FN45 FN48 FN53 FN56 FN64
2 VOTES FN02 FN05 FN07 FN08 FN09 FN11 FN12 FN15 FN16 FN19
///CM///
8 VOTES CM89
5 VOTES CM94 CM95
4 VOTES CM86
3 VOTES CM79 CM93 CM96 CM99
2 VOTES CM88 CM98
1 VOTE CM97
///DM///
10 VOTES DM 28 DM29
9 VOTES DM17 DM18
8 VOTES DM16 DM83
7 VOTES DM27 DM71 DM77 DM81
6 VOTES DM60 DM64 DM70 DM82 DM88 DM89 DM93
5 VOTES DM07 DM19 DM50 DM67 DM68 DM74 DM76 DM84
///EM///
6 VOTES EM33
5 VOTES EM03 EM23 EM62
4 VOTES EM16 EM21 EM47 EM50 EM53 EM59 EM81
3 VOTES EM00 EM02 EM06 EM07 EM08 EM19 EM20 EM22 EM24 EM41 EM43 EM52 EM61 EM71
///FM///
5 VOTES FM08 FM26 FM27
4 VOTES FM02 FM03 FM13 FM15 FM16 FM25
3 VOTES FM04 FM05 FM06 FM14 FM17
2 VOTES FM07 FM09 FM18
1 VOTE FM19 FM39
///DL///
5 VOTES DL79 DL88 DL89
4 VOTES DL59 DL69
3 VOTES DL29 DL39 DL58 DL66 DL67 DL98
2 VOTES DL27 DL36 DL37 DL38 DL43 DL45 DL46 DL48 DL53 DL56 DL57 DL65 DL68
///EL///
11 VOTES EL08
7 VOTES EL17 EL49
6 VOTES EL07 EL16 EL18 EL59
5 VOTES EL06 EL09 EL19 EL39
4 VOTES EL00 EL10 EL11 EL14 EL15 EL28 EL89 EL94
3 VOTES EL04 EL13 EL40 EL41 EL84 EL86
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