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Is using a scoreboard distractive?

We see some people find using scoreboards distractive due to a huge data shown on one page. We have prepared a few tips how to reduce that impact by using Filters and View options:

  1. Using “Chase the Rabbit” View option.

It only display the five scores above and five below your score. (Works only if your call is on the board!)

That how the board looks like once it activated:

2. Using “Top Ten” View option. It only display Top Ten highest scores in each category.

It could be very useful if you a leader:

That how the board looks like once it activated:

3. Using Category/Band/Power/Continent etc. Filter

You could customize your scoreboard content as you wish by using many parameter filters.

That’s what you have:

4. Cleaning up all Filter/View settings by one click.

If you have screwed up all the filters and view options the result will be an empty board. To refresh and get back to a default option (show everything) you need just one click on “Clear filter” option:

5. Try to use mobile template on your desktop.

Just click on that thumbnail:

It has a small footprint so could be easily be between your logger windows:

It’s easy to come back to a usual view. Just click on the three white strips at the right top and choose “Quite Mobile”.

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COSB usage reports during CQ WW CW 2024

The CQ WW contest always is the biggest one. We have prepared a usage reports.

The web usage report provided by Google Analytics:

    It shows the maximum of simultaneously active users number is 2,250. We had totally 3,300 active users during the CQ WW CW weekend

    We have also a number of users from top seven most active countries:

    The number of CQ WW CW COSB users published at least one QSO was 1179.

    Who were those over 2K people watching the scoreboard without active contribution? Just the HAM Radio fans? ))

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    Real Time Contesting (RTC) is our new project!

    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 one very significant difference :

    No need to send logs and keep waiting for months for the contest results anymore ! The FINAL RESULTS are provided right after the contest withing a few minutes!

    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
    • K1USN Slow Speed every Friday and Monday
    • CWOps Open
    • NAQP
    • NA Sprint

    and a few other using the similar adjudication template.

    Setup RTC in N1MM+ log:

    1. Get your RTC PIN (otherwise your postings will be refused). The RTC PIN could be found on your profile page at HAMSCORE.com https://hamscore.com/profile/ (you have to be logged in. The HAMSCORE.com use the same users DB as another our project COSB. Please use your COSB credentials to get logged in) :

    2. In the N1MM+ “Configurer -> Score Reporting” check the “Include real time QSO data real time scoring” option

    3. The new “Real Time QSO Reporting PIN” field will appear. Enter your PIN into that field

    4. Click on the “OK” button on the bottom. The RTC PIN will be saved FOREVER !!! So you don’t need to enter it again after your logger starts

    The logger accepts the only RTC PIN which is a number in the range of 10000 – 999999.

    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.

    The contest log link is published on the profile page (https://hamscore.com/profile/ ):

    The contest log check report link is published on the profile page (https://hamscore.com/profile/ ):

    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.

    Join us!