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The last 4 weeks saw 45 cards submitted that contributed to the Cards-to-Green effort in KZN.
The bulk of these were in the Vryheid and Amatikulu areas, but there has also been a steady chipping away throughout the rest of the province.
This represents an average of 1.6 cards/day, this is still 0.2 above our overall average.
The biggest movers on this table were 2730 and 2831 each with 9 cards, and 2731 with 6.
3030 got a surprising 5 cards thanks to Tim Wood's efforts on the South Coast. This area has been a concern since Barry Porter's passing away, as he used to cover this area quite well.
As stated above, there was also a steady chipping away thoughout the province.
I must point out that although this table reflects 44 cards, but there were actually 45 submitted. There was an old card incorrectly allocated to 2929DC, for pentad 2955_2930. This pentad has been reduced to a single card now.
We have a change in the leaderboard for this period, with Duncan McKenzie managing 3 more than John and Kim Cox's 12, for this period.
The full list per observers as follows:
15 Duncan McKenzie [mostly Vryheid area]
12 John and Kim Cox [just inland along the coastal plain from Mandini to Imfolozi GR]
7 Tim Wood [S Coast inland]
4 Alan Manson [Tugela Valley and Donnybrook]
2 Lawrie Chivers [Dundee area]
1 Felicity Ellmore [Weenen area]
1 Jason Boyce [Mkuzi area]
1 Malcolm Robinson [the troublesome pentad at Henley Dam outside PMB]
1 Shaun Chamberlain [Newcastle area]
1 Mr M Taioe [Matatiele area]
Generally for SABAP2 in KZN over the last 4 weeks we managed 7.32 cards per day at an average of 58.4 records per cards. Both of these numbers are still well above our provincial average, but with a distinct tail-off in records per card, from 70.5 in the last period.
With our visitors having left us, we have also dropped to our usual third place in the daily cards submitted table, with Gauteng edging back above us to 7.54 cards/day in second, and the Western Cape back to first on 9.96 cards/day.
Thanks to all contributors to SABAP2, especially in KZN.
The KZN CTG map has seen some movement since the last map was published on 5-Dec, mostly with the colour change of the 5 red pentads in the Magudu area and the two red pentads in the Utrecht area. This was the result of the Atlas Bash from 6-9 Dec, based in this area courtesy of Malcolm Robinson. Tim Wood and Bob McCosh did the two Utrecht pentads on the way home.
There was also some steady chipping through most of the rest of KZN, particularly in the Melmoth-Ulundi area, but also with some contributions throughout KZN.
56 cards were submitted in the period that contributed to the KZN CTG mini-project, i.e. 2 CTG cards / day in the last two fortnights.
The biggest gain was in the 2731 degree square, with 23 cards courtesy of the Magudu Atlas Bash.
Next was 2831 with 12;
2730 had 7 cards;
while 2732, 2830 and 2930 had 3 each;
the rest were 1's and 2's in various degree squares.
2830 remains the neediest degree square with 335 cards needed to turn green;
followed by 2731 with 195 cards.
Attributing CTG cards to observers, once again we have John and Kim Cox at the top of the table, but at least we have a number of other observers in hot pursuit:
15 John and Kim Cox -mostly around Melmoth-Ulundi
12 Malcolm Robinson -Magudu but also some around Umvoti
11 Tim Wood -Magudu but also the 2 blanks near Utrecht
8 Colin Summersgill -Magudu, Middlerest and Underberg
5 Duncan McKenzie -Vryheid area
1 Alan Manson -Kranskop
1 Dave Everard -Van Reenen
1 Drummond Densham -Nsikeni
1 Lawrie Chivers -Dundee
1 Mr M Saunders -Harding
On the general submissions front we have been enjoying a bit of a purple patch with 8.5 cards submitted per day over the last 28 days. The previous highest for this stat was for the fortnight ending 4 Jan 2012, where we averaged 9.4 cards / day.
This high rate of submissions has not been at the cost of any quality, these cards have averaged 70.5 records per card. This is the highest records / card that I have recorded, since I have been keeping these stats on a fortnightly basis in Oct 2008. The closest that we have come to this was in Nov 2010 with an average of 70.1.
From a project perspective we are also doing well, this 8.54 cards/day is the highest for any region over this period. Next closest was Gauteng with 6.79 followed by the Western Cape with 6.54.
On a rolling average basis, the W Cape is doing the best with 9.11 cards/day; followed by Gauteng with 6.27; while KZN is averaging 5.99.
Thanks to all who are contributing to SABAP2.
