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. But it has significant difference :
No need to send logs and wait months for the contest results anymore ! The FINAL RESULTS are provided right after the contest!
It constantly collects log data from loggers during a contest. The server processes all the logs from all the participants in real time and publishes calculated scores on a scorboard. After a contest finishes it gives some extra time (a few minutes) for making corrections After that you can see final results and get a personal log check report.
Currently we support the following contests:
- CWOps mini-CWT – We inite you to joping our CWT sessions on Wednesdays!
- ICWT MST – We inite you to joping our MST sessions on Mondays!
- NAQP
- K1USN Slow Speed
- NA Sprint
and other using the similar exchange.
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. Be sure n the “score deistributor server” is chosen
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.