April 2019 FMT Results: Green Bar!

Well the results are in, with 112 people submitting measurements, 74 of 112 (including me) made the Green Band (< 1 Hz error).  Five of those had errors less than 0.1 Hz error.

My results were 0.26 Hz high on 80-meters (72 PPB), and 0.43 Hz low on 40-meters (61 PPB); for an average error of 66 Parts Per Billion (PPB).   Matt, KA1BQP (another Newport County Radio Club member here in RI) beat me with an average error of 64 PPB.  Our scores put us exactly in the middle of the pack.

Comparing it to April of 2018, I did MUCH worse.  Last year I had an average error of 13.4 PPB (being off 0.01 Hz on 80 and 0.17 Hz on 40).

In an earlier post, I had stated three different values for each band; math based, visually based (visual average), and hunch (based on my best guess of what Doppler was doing).  I submitted the math based approach.  Looks like I would have done better by using a visual average of the waterfall — but that is just this time.

Technique Audio Freq Freq Guess Actual Freq Delta Result
80 Math 998.14 3,599,278.14 3,599,277.88 -0.26
80 Visual 998.10 3,599,278.10 3,599,277.88 -0.22 Better
80 Hunch 998.20 3,599,278.20 3,599,277.88 -0.32 Worse
40 Math 1,011.99 7065531.990 7,065,532.42 0.43
40 Visual 1,012.03 7065532.030 7,065,532.42 0.39 Better
40 Hunch 1,012.20 7065532.200 7,065,532.42 0.22 Better

 

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