Wednesday 19 June 2013

KZN CTG 6 to 19 June

 The last fortnight saw 15 cards submitted that contributed to the Cards-to-Green effort in KZN.
The bulk were in Southern KZN, with five from around Melmoth and a single one from the Newcastle area.
2729 benefited  from a single submission, which means that only 10 more are needed and then all the pentads on the KZN side have at least four cards.
2831 benefited from 5 cards, bringing it's total needed down to 124. At the beginning of 2012 254 cards were needed, and at the beginning of 2013, 163.
3029 was the sole beneficiary of the 9 remaining CTG cards. 
2830 is still in need of the most effort, with 318 cards needed. 2830 has three pentads with no cover and 72 with only one card.

I think that this is the first time in ages that we only have three contributor's on the CTG Merit Table.
Tim Wood and his team head the table with their great contribution of 9 cards. Of these 9, seven were the second card for their respective pentads.
John and Kim Cox are second on the table with their five cards, this time from the Melmoth area.
Last, but certainly not least, Johan de Villiers contributed a card from the Mpumalanga border.

On the general KZN front we had 57 cards submitted for KZN, down from last fortnight's 84. This represents a drop from 6.0/day to 4.1/day. We seem to average around 4/day in winter.
The records/card number also dropped from 53.7 to 43.3, so it would seem that winter is finally setting in, as this number was also in the low 40's in the fortnight prior to the last.
Thanks to all who have contributed to SABAP2.

Wednesday 5 June 2013

KZN CTG 23 May to 5 June

This last fortnight again saw 14 cards submitted that contributed to the CTG effort in KZN. Last fortnight had 27 cards, but the one before also had 14 cards, or exactly one CTG card/day.
This time the spread is from around Vryheid, inland from the North Coast and some north of the Durban-PMB axis.
2831 saw the largest gain with 4 cards followed by 2730 with 3 and 2930 with 2.
2830 gained a single card so now needs 318.
2931 inched a little closer to completion with another card submitted as well, so now 15 needed there.
The credits table continues to show variation, other than John and Kim Cox and Tim Wood, who featured again.
All six observers have featured on this table before, but the line up, sorted by most cards and alphabetically is:
Duncan McKenzie with 4
John and Kim Cox also with 4
Alan Manson with 2
Tim Wood with 2
Dave Everard and Malcolm Robinson each with 1.
Thanks to these observers who have managed to target their atlasing to contribute to the CTG effort.
On the general SABAP2-KZN front we had one card less than last fortnight, so 84 in total, or 6.0/day. This means that the CTG:Total percentage dropped from 32% to 17% percent, which is still a tidy effort.
In terms of records/card we have sprung back up to 53.7 records/card from last period's 45.6, so back where we were pre-winter.
Thanks to all observers who have contributed to SABAP2.