[CQ-Contest] Contest Scoreboards

[Pete Smith]

Eric, while you've been away (;^)), a group  under the leadership of WA7BNM has been working on developing a standard for real-time contest score reporting.  The idea is that once the standards have been established, anyone can set up a scoreboard, and anyone can supply data.  This would lead to contest sponsors setting up their own scoreboards, for anything from local QSO parties to CQWW and ARRL contests.  N1MM Logger has already demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, using a separate application to relay data from the logging program to the scoreboard in real time, without user intervention.

I think we are all hoping that the standard will be ready for more serious and widespread implementation by this fall.  I know that N1MM Logger will be ready.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 09:06 PM 7/9/2006, you wrote:
>RE:  http://www.hagasoft.com/1024TeamPos.aspx
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>Until we get to the point of having fully "Realtime" Contest Scoreboards, something like the above WRTC (URL) would be very cool.
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>Further, with some options to display ONLY specific stations of interest and no % changes (but perhaps band/mode tallies).  This would be very interesting for club competitions and selected member callsigns.
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>In other words, like for the ARRL SS:
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>1. NCCC, PVARC, etc. running club totals
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>2. Your own callsign plus 9 other club members who you suspect may be your closest competition (or the software can list these automatically).
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>I doubt there is a "serious" contester on the planet today who does not use a logging software program.  If the handful of known software vendors plugged in this capability and someone donated bandwidth, I think this would be a great addition to Contesting.
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>Packet/DX-Summit, et.al. are already here, so perhaps such a venue could simply be an add on module or something for monitoring purposes.
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>The key thing is to have "options", and to NOT (that's ***NOT*** have to use a mouse to scroll to see what you want to see).
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>73...
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>Rick, K6VVA * The Locust
>
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