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Real Score cluster update. Cqcontest.net left the cluster

For the past 6 months, the score distributor has been used to distribute live score postings from all participating contesters, regardless of whether they posted directly to the distributor, the Contest Online ScoreBoard (COSB) or cqcontest.net. Unfortunately, cqcontest.net has recently announced that it will no longer share scores that are directly posted to it.

The public announcement of that decision is in the cqcontest.net official tweet https://twitter.com/live_contest/status/988437992208560128 . As a result, we have no choice but to stop sharing with them direct postings coming to COSB. We are saddened by this and hope they will change their policy in the future.

To ensure that live scores continue to be widely available, please configure your contest logging software to post your score to the score distributor at the following link, rather than to an individual scoreboard:

http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php

We also invite anyone interested in establishing a live scoreboard to join our federation of scoreboards. Please contact us for details at admin@contestonlinescore.com .

73!

Alex, K2BB                  contestonlinescore.com
Bruce, WA7BNM     distributor server, 3830scores.com, www.contestcalendar.com
Randy, K5ZD              www.cqww.com, www.cqwpx.com, contestonlinescore.com
Victor, VA2WA          contestonlinescore.com
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New COSB version for mobile devices!

We have recently activated new COSB functionality for mobile devices.  The website automatically detects mobile device and switches to a compact mobile page. The mobile version doesn’t have bands breakdown views and have just minimum data. That’s why it’s good enough even for old iPhone small screens!

But we keep all the functionality. All the score output filters work the same way as in the full desktop version. The performance graphs are also available for logged in users:

The following options are available from the mobile menu:

We have also made possible to get the new scoreboard mobile page in a desktop browser.

The scoreboard mobile version window takes much smaller space on a screen. If needed return to a full version could be done from the desktop mobile fall down menu :

We hope that would make online scoring monitoring mush more comfortable! As usual we’d like to get some feedback from you. Any comments are highly appreciated. Just use the form below.

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New column on the scoreboard page: Authorization source.

We have added one new column to the scoreboard page. It has the title “A” and could be “translated” as an Authorization  source.

Since our server is getting involved into the Real Score Cluster more and more we are going to publish the score postings source.

There are the following options:

C –  posting has been processed and authorized by the CQcontest.net server

D – posting has been processed by the CQcontest.net server by using authorization API either CQcontest.net or COSB

S –  posting has been received directly and processed by the Contest Online ScoreBoard server.

 

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New web site version is online

We’ve done significant re-styling of the COSB web site. Thanks to Randy who made a great effort to clean up all the pages!

The major changes are:

  • The scoreboard page keeps now its scrolling position after auto refreshing
  • The scoreboard page has been re-designed  for resizing to a smaller window
  • The site header has been changed.  Contest selector has been moved to the left edge. That has been done to have it in a smaller window
  • Additional windows (Club, competition, Teams Competition and Rates) open in a dedicated windows
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Randy, K5ZD is the new COSB team member

We are so glad to have Randy, K5ZD to join our team! He is well known to almost everyone who has the same passion as we all are – contesting. Member of CQ Hall of Fame,  WRTC-2014 director , incoming   WRTC-2018 judge, ex director of CQ WPX and CQ WW DX contest and many others titles!

Beside that he has a good web experience by enhancing CQ WW and CQ WPX web sites. Randy is going to help us with COSB web sites design and development.

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New rate graphs ( Contest progress view)

We have activated a new  graphs view: “Contest progress“:

That may be useful to compare personal performance with some other participant.

A rate window is showing “Hourly view“ by default as it was before:

We just decided to remove background from all the graph to get better contrast balance.

Switching between two graphs are by marked by red rectangle on screenshot images link above.

Please note these features are available for the only registered users!

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A new feature added : Operator call

We’ve got some suggestions to reflect if a guest operator renting a contest shack as a SINGLE-OP. So we have implemented this feature. Such a station call and a guest operator combination will replace just a contest call  being used for a contest. We provide a combined call where an operator call fillows after a station call and split by the “@’ sign:

The call marked by red color means: Station contest call VA2WA operated by a guest operator VA2WDQ. That’s a style similar to what 3830 web site uses.

If you wish to use this feature please configure operator call for a contest. The most popular logging programs N1MM+ and WinTest (by using our utility)  support this feature.  We’ve found this data is missing in the DXLog. Probably some other logs are missing that feature as well. We have already contacted Chris, 9A5K the owner of DXLog.  So it’s in process now.