Real Time Contesting (RTC) is a new technology of contest adjudication in near Real Time. We have prepared a new project https://hamscore.com/. It looks similar to our online scoring project https://contestonlinescore.com/. But it has one significant difference. It constantly collects log data from loggers during a contest.
The RTC server processes all the logs from all the participants in near real time and publishes calculated scores in a contest board. After a contest finishes it gives some extra time (10-30 minutes) for making corrections in a contest log and in a few minutes after that it publishes final results. Every logged in participant can see a personal log check results on a personal profile page. No need to send logs and wait for months anymore to see the contest results!
The project is in the testing stage and the first contest we provide service for – CW-Ops on Wednesdays. The RTC reports to HAMSCORE automatically be passed to Online Scoring server – https://contestonlinescore.com/. So no need to worry about that.}}
Setup RTC in N1MM+ log:
1. Check up the “Include real time QSO data for real scoring” checkbox at the Configuration -> Score Reporting tag.
2. Type this URL in the “Score Reporting Server” field: https://hamscore.com/postxml/ (don’t forget the last slash symbol !!! )
3. Type your COSB password (otherwise your postings will be refused)
4. Keep “Updated Interval (mins)” 2 minutes.
Be sure to enter a proper exchange (your name and CWOps number). Otherwise that will be reported as Name Exch and all the QSO with you will be marked as “Wrong Exchange” and not be valid in all your correspondents’ logs:
Setup RTC in DXLog:
The RTC option added to the DXLog starting from the version 2.6.8.
1. Click Commands|Live score|Setup|Live score server settings
2. Select Real Time Contest (hamscore.com) and enter the credentials of your contestonlinescore.com
account. Click OK.
3. Check Commands|Live score|Auto-post
4. Run the contest
Setup RTC in SDC Logger
1. Select “HamScore.com” in the “Scoring” tab. RTC Format” will be selected automatically.
2. Enter login and password
3. Click the “Update All Data” button
See also manual SDC: Contest->Scoring->Real Time Contest.
Setup RTC in QARTest
1 From the menu Options, select Data broadcast
2. Check “RTC”, leaving the 127.0.0.1 address, and then “OK”
3. Download QAR2GetScores utility from QARTest download page and install it.
4. Launch QAR2GetScores
5. From Options, select “Enable RTC”
6. Select contestonlinescore.com
7. Click “Connect”
On the bottom-left of the window a countdown will start, indicating next data transmission to RTC.
On the bottom-right is the status with the QSOs to be sent in next transmission
Using HAMSCORE.com
Please note the RTC server (HAMSCORE.com) starts accepting logs 2 (TWO) hours before a contest starts!
Please login to the https://hamscore.com/. On your personal profile page you can find two links on your log check results and your log in Cabrillo. During the testing mode they are showing results instantly. In the normal mode – the only log without any check results will be shown, The check log results will be published after the “Contest is finished. Results are published” status be up in the contest board’s header.
Once “Contest is finished. Results are published” status be up the real Score/QSO/Mults data will be published on the board. The only RTC Score is published on a board during a contest time. The QSO/Mults are published as they claimed during a contest. We did that to remove some sort of online assistance to operators during a contest.
One more thing – in our reality RTC means – The NEAR Real Time Contesting. Since a logger reporting period is 2 minutes – the server could publish the latest RTC Score within at least 2 minutes. Please add some processing time and a web page refresh rate as well.