2018-02-11
Plotting the number of amateur radio contacts
After the end of January I decided to plot the number of contacts again.January is a busy month with two contests for me but I did not make a lot of contacts outside of those contests this year. I added contacts from holidays and the PE4KH/P activities to the total count. Some more work on the plot script, I think bars look better than a line graph. But you could spend hours in gnuplot making the plot just right... The new script:
set output "qslcount.png" set terminal png size 640,300 fontscale 0.7 set timefmt "%Y-%m" set xlabel "Month" set ylabel "Number of contacts" set xdata time set style fill solid set xtics format "%b %Y" set xtics rotate set grid set boxwidth 0.75 relative set autoscale xfixmin set autoscale xfixmax plot "dataset-qsocount" using 1:2 title "Contacts/Month" with boxesUpdate: And indeed the change in x autoscale was one bit more 'just right'. The first graph was in February 2017: Rising number of amateur radio contacts.