OK Guys, One of the truisms is that many of the aspects of contests are unobserved. It's not like a race where you can watch them running around the track. If someone cuts accross the track while eve
W1VE actually built something that did this for WriteLog. WL users could add a plug-in and their scores would show up on a web page in real-time. Never got critical mass, but a way cool idea anyway.
Very neat idea. Ideally, and conceivably not many years away, logs would be sent in real-time to the CQ Contest Committee for posting on an online scoreboard, and as the clock turns from 2359 to 0000
I'm hesitant. So much of being a successful contester is knowing when to go get the hard double mult on 40, or when to put which radio on which band, etc. Do we really want to make that all transpare
Many years ago I wrote a futuristic article for NCJ that predicted that all logs would be fed to a central data base in real time. The participants would receive, in real time, a global map showing t
I was a referee at one of the OJ stations in Finland at WRTC 2002. The scoreboard was very exciting. It was *the* big new idea in Finland, and I think it is the next BIG step in contesting. This coul
The gauntlet is thrown in the essence of pushing the technology envelope and, perhaps, not seeing another thread about how packet is unfair. A very interesting idea. However, on the posts about packe
_________________________________________________________ IMHO, packet is not unfair, it is just undesirable. We are getting farther away from being radio operators and closer to being technogeeks. N
seeing _________________________________________________________ IMHO, packet is not unfair, it is just undesirable. We are getting farther away from being radio operators and closer to being technog
Hi Red, As Randy stated, I did build such an application for Writelog, called "Leaderboard Live". It showed all participants Writelog score in real time on a web page, as well as in a window within W
Contesting is not fair and never will be, get over it. Besides your response is off-topic to the subject of the email. I like the whole online scoreboard idea. Lets do it, anybody game? Email me of l
HEY! I resemble that remark! David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net ________________________________________
Tom Taormina, K5RC replied: for still instead. I'm with the "OF" on this one. One of my other favorite hobbies is deer hunting, and there are a lot of similarities. Both have hardware tools (rifles/r
[SNIP] May be arguments such as these impede the evolution of contesting and should be laid to rest. It has not been demonstated that log analysis, historical or real-time, can reveal contest secret
On Nov 19, 2004, at 8:33 AM, Pete Smith wrote: I'm hesitant. So much of being a successful contester is knowing when to go get the hard double mult on 40, or when to put which radio on which band, et
all would graphically, need seeing The map concept has been implemented as a JAVA applet for one of the 6-meter Web pages. QSOs are reported to the page with the grid of each end and a line is drawn
I don't really believe that the issue with most contesters in the US is whether packet is fair or unfair anymore. That may be an issue in some places in the world -- perhaps at a dxpedition to Madaga
It looks to me like we're talking about more than one thing here. What do we want? - Real-time scoring? - Instant final results? [1] - More detailed real-time information? (do you want to know I have
Although I've been interested in the concept of real-time contest scoring for some time, this idea seems to appear periodically on the reflector, generate intense interest among a few for a short tim
I totally agree, Bill. I was responding to a post that seemed to contemplate total disclosure -- "XX just moved to 40, so he must be looking for one of his famous skew path Asian mults ..." Yes, of c