Median Distances in ARRL DX CW, 2018 -- 2025

Using the public logs from ARRL DX CW, we can generate tables for the continental U.S. showing the median distance of QSOs in the contest. Unfortunately, only the logs beginning in 2018 have been made public by ARRL (despite their assuring me in 2018 that older logs would be made available, and the CQ WW contest committee's laudable release of CQ WW logs back to 2005).

Each state-and-year cell in the tables below encodes information thusly: 

 

The distances are calculated using the geographical centre of each state and the latitude and longitude of countries provided by cty.dat files downloaded from here.