This is a time lapse video showing KB5TX's contacts first by mode and then by band. Each frame in the video is 5 minutes worth of real time. In addition there are a few summary slides. The small red dot is were our FD operations took place. The Rate is QSOs/hour. I made the video using a combination of open source tools (Quantum GIS, mencoder, ImageMagik, GIMP, python, numpy, matplotlib, SQLite, SQLite manager, Spatialite, QGIS Time Manager). The video was rendered in HD so to see all the juicy details set the quality to 720p and make the video full screen. I'll be posting further details here, but incase I don't feel free to email me if you have any questions/comments/etc..

Software Used:

Quantum GIS - http://www.qgis.org/ - Used to do most of the work

QGIS Time Manager - http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Time_Manager - QGIS plugin used to generate the individual frames for the videos

mencoder - http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/mencoder.html - Used to combine a bunch of still frames into a video

ImageMagik - http://www.imagemagick.org - Used the composite tool to add the legend/overlay and the graphs onto the raw frames

GIMP - http://www.gimp.org/ - I created the legends and overlay using this software, it's a great free alternative to something like Photoshop

Python - http://www.python.org/ - I used this combined with numpy and mathplotlib to do the statistical analysis and generate the score and rate graphs.

numpy - http://numpy.scipy.org/ - mathmatics library for Python

matplotlib - http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ - plotting library for Python

SQLite - http://www.sqlite.org/ - Light weight open source database software

SQLite manager - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ - GUI tool that allows you to manage SQLite databases

Spatialite - https://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite/ - program/data format for holding GIS data in a SQLite database, also provides some useful import/export tools for GIS