[CQ-Contest] Live Scoreboard upcoming events

[Gerry Hull]

A free-for-all is fine, unless you are trying to score a contest (contest
sponsor),
or, track scores while multiple contests are going on (getscores.org).  The
only
important tag is the CONTEST-ID, which must match between logging
applications
and getscores.org for the scores to be displayed properly.     As Dave
mentioned, the Russian DX contest id is "RDXC", however N1MM had it as
"RUSSIAN-DX". (fixed in next release).

I was unware of Jim, AD1C's "unofficial" list,
http://hamradio.ad1c.us/contest-id.htm,
but this is a great place for this information.  I'll be adding the majority
of these
contest tags to getscores.  Thanks Jim!
73, Gerry W1VE
www.getscores.org owner
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:35 PM, VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg at harts.org.hk> wrote:

> K1TTT mentioned:
>
> >Sorry for the confusion for those who tried to use the scoreboard for the
> >rtty sprint last night.  I think Gerry got it working an hour or so into
> it.
> >The problem is that the rtty sprint is not in the list of official
> Cabrillo
> >events at: http://www.kkn.net/~trey/cabrillo/tags.html
> >So it wasn't coded into the web site as a legal contest name, even though
> it
> >was in the calendar of events the Cabrillo filter took it out.  the cw
> and
> >ssb sprints are on there, but for some reason not rtty!  If you sponsor
> an
> >event that wants Cabrillo formatted logs, or want to have an event listed
> on
> >the real time scoreboard, you should make sure that you get in the
> official
> >list of contest abbreviations... this will help software authors to use a
> >consistent name for your contest.
>
> No, no, no - Cabrillo is a free-for-all: if an event is
> not listed in the spec, or a QSO template doesn't
> quite fit what's needed, then make up your own.
> Need a tag that's not defined, then make up your
> own.  Cabrillo is really good for this.
>
> 73, ex-VR2BrettGraham/p.
>
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