Pete and all,
Earlier this morning the WRTC 2026 Organizing Committee released
information on the real time log scoring system that they are developing
with WRL for the July, 2026 competition in England. While real time log
information was streamed to the cloud from each station at WRTC 2023, the
WRTC 2026 committee is emphasizing that it will use it more for
public-facing accurate play by play analytics and scoring. The system was
tested live in this past July's IARU and is being further refined.
The employed technology has come a long way since WRTC 2002, when the
Finnish organizers under OH2BH's leadership distributed Nokia cell phones
to each referee to call in their team's score periodically. Then in 2014
the New England organizers, under KM3T's leadership, designed and built an
automated score reporting system that included detailed information from
each team that was updated every five minutes and directly fed a
public-facing website designed by WA1Z, reducing the Nokia cell phones to a
backup role. This was also used at WRTC 2018 at the German event.
In 2023 the Italian organizers took it further, and in association with
IW1FRU's HamAward platform (see: https://hamaward.cloud) streamed the QSO
data live to the cloud and used it in real time to spot irregularities
(such as "cheerleader" situations) and to activate spotting when stations
were on SSB (to provide contestants an equivalent to the automatic CW
spotting that exists through the RBN).
The public announcement from WRTC 2026 is at:
https://www.wrtc2026.org/2025/08/27/world-radio-league-and-wrtc-successfully-test-new-real-time-contesting-software/
73, Dave K3ZJ
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM K3ZJ David Siddall <davek3zj@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Pete,
>
> WRL has on-line contest logging that will work with literally anything
> that can access the Internet. They are working with the WRTC-2026
> organizers and seem to know what they are doing, but of course a relatively
> new and developing project.
> See https://worldradioleague.com/docs/contesting/.
>
> 73, Dave K3ZJ
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM Pete Chamalian via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> My very long-time pal, Gary, W1ECH, has a Chromebook laptop and he wants
>> to
>> operate in SS. I'm looking for suggestions for software that he might
>> use.
>> Note this thing does not run windows software, sadly.
>>
>
> Pete Chamalian, W1RM
>> W1RM@Comcast.net
>
>
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