[CQ-Contest] Status of getscores.org?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

I was one of the first people to publicize (some might say "cheerlead 
for") both getscores and the overall concept, both on the reflector and 
in my National Contest Journal software column 5+ years ago.

Unfortunately, the concept was much stronger than the execution.  Too 
many disappointments took the edge off for the "early adopters" like me, 
and the later hiatus in getscores' availability had a disastrous effect.

At least so far, the Russian effort seems to be learning from 
experience, and I intend to post my scores there, at least for now.

73, Pete N4ZR
The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net, blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com,
spots at telnet.reversebeacon.net, port 7000 and
arcluster.reversebeacon.net, port 7000

On 10/21/2012 7:58 AM, PY1NB - Felipe Ceglia wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> You raised an interesting topic:
>
>
>> I've not been doing much "ra-ra" for getscores on this reflector because
>> the management did not like it.
>>
> I have always wondered why getscores seems to be so impopular among
> contesters, specially in the US.
>
> - is it difficult to post scores?
> - is hiding the operation progress part of the strategy?
> - ...
>
> 73,
>
> Felipe Ceglia - PY1NB
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>
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Gerry Hull <gerry at yccc.org> wrote:
>
>> Getscores is still there, fully functional... It has been working just
>> fine.  Lots of people in our club still use it.
>>
>> I've not been doing much "ra-ra" for getscores on this reflector because
>> the management did not like it.
>>
>> Getscores will automatically report any score in the correct format.
>> You can use the page filters to narrow the view to anything you want.
>> Before CQWW, l will remove older contests to make it easier to view.
>>
>> The Russian guys can also echo scores reported to getscores, as the
>> combined data is available via http and xml.
>>
>> Please keep using the site,  and as I've said many times, I am open to
>> changes and suggestions.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Gerry W1VE
>> On Oct 20, 2012 8:36 PM, "Jeff Kinzli N6GQ" <jeff at n6gq.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In the past, I have used getscores.org to post realtime scores to
>>> during the contest(s).
>>>
>>> It would seem it is still there, but I'm not hearing of many using it.
>>>
>>> Have most moved over to cqcontest.ru as the realtime score server?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jeff N6GQ/YN2AA
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