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Re: [Trlog] Contests with Time Periods - How to manage?

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Subject: Re: [Trlog] Contests with Time Periods - How to manage?
From: "Victor Goncharsky US5WE" <us5we@latorica.lviv.ua>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:42:00 +0300
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Last weekend's Ukrainian Championship is exactly of this kind.
Bands 160 and 80
Period one = 2000-2200
Period two = 2200-2359
Exchange = region + # (LV 001)
Mult = new regions counted separately in every part.
73, Vic US5WE (UW5W in contests)


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:12:47 +0300, Ville Hiilesmaa <oh2mm@nettilinja.fi>  
wrote:

>
> Many contests have time periods, during which QSOs can be repeated with  
> stations already worked in the previous period(s).
> Several OH-contests, ES-Open Contest, and SM-manadtest are split in  
> periods, just to mention a few.
> Typically, stations can be worked once each hour.
> The period changes usually at an even hour, however, the 2nd period of  
> the SM-test is from 1515 to 1615
>
> What can you currently do?
> 1.  Work all dupes with 0 points. Edit later the points column with a  
> text editor.
> 2.  When the contest is on 40 and 80 only, then switch to upper bands  
> for the next period. Then edit band info.
> 3.  Restart TR for each period with a different log name. Then merge  
> partial logs.
>
> Is there any smarter way to do do this in TR?
> If not, a couple of new commands to the LOGCFG.DAT would help,
> for example:
>
> CONTEST PERIODS = 2    (default=1)
> PERIOD 1 =  1400 TO 1500
> PERIOD 2 =  1515 TO 1615
>
> The multipliers are typically counted only once, so no need to change  
> this.
>
> To my knowledge, splitting into time periods is not available in other  
> programs.
> A World-renown pioneer in contesting, TR could be the #1 to implement  
> this feature.
>
> Ville OH2MM
>
>
>
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