2024-05-29

Reverse Beacon Network Actvity: 2009-2023

We can plot how the number of per-band posters to the RBN has varied since the RBN's inception. In the plots below, there is one datum per month, representing the total number of posters for that month.


First, a plot of the total number of posters as a function of time:


This can be more compactly represented, along with similar per-band data for 160m through 10m (excluding 60m):

It seems that, following a burst of interest during the COVID era, the number of posters (without regard to band) has settled at around 285, with an annual excursion of around 15. The WARC bands continue to be under-represented in comparison to adjacent non-WARC bands.

Splitting out the first figure above into the contributing bands, we find: