[CQ-Contest] Team Competition in the IARU HF Championship -WRTC-Style

[Bruce Horn]

At 11:06 PM 5/15/2003 -0700, Rick Tavan wrote:
>Is anyone out there willing and able to implement some form of real-time 
>or periodic reporting of team scores during the contest for viewing on a 
>Web page?

It would be simple for me to make a web form available (and companion 
summary real-time web page) that would allow periodic reporting of team 
scores during the contest. The advantage of this method is that anyone can 
provide a periodic report regardless of what contest logging software 
they're using. The disadvantage is that one of the team members has to take 
the time to complete the form (probably 15 seconds or so). I envision a 
form that is a simplified version of the 3830 score reporting form - just 
the basic fields needed to provide an updated score.

In the longer term I'm interested in hearing from/working with others about 
an open-source method of making real-time log status info available to a 
centralized server(s) during a contest. As I recall, the efforts in this 
area to date have been dependent on use of specific logging software or use 
of a specific API. I'd prefer a standardized format (XML based?) and method 
of communication (SOAP, e-mail, etc.) that would be straightforward for the 
authors of contest logging software to implement within their programs.

73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)