[CQ-Contest] Online scoreboards

Sat Jul 1 01:23:54 EDT 2017

Victor,

Again, Thanks for your feedback/update - and for efforts in creating a tool
that can be used by everyone and also for more regional contests.

Keep up the good work. Very much appreciated. A pity Canada Day and Marconi
collide this year, but will try to give you guys some points as well.

73! Mats, RM2D

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 at 22:12, Victor Androsov <victor.androsov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Mats,
>
> Thanks a lot for your great feedback!
>
> That's a very good question regarding "expanded data". Actually we are
> parcing and collecting all of them in the database. But we were not sure to
> have it since some operators wouldn't like to reveal personal contest band
> usage strategy. Anyway after collecting few feedbacks we've decided to have
> it on the page. So that's just a question of time when you could see all
> the bands breakdowns. Sure that would be possible if a client logger would
> provide band breakdown data. So everybody could make a personal decision to
> provide that data or not. We are also collecting score historical data. And
> some analyzing tools will be added later.
>
> The last week was the first week we've just started with a very limited
> pilot project. So we are coming up with some new features on the next week:
>
> - The  "User defined" contest option is ready. It will be activated in the
> new release coming up on the next week.
>
> - The "Private room" option is coming up on the next week as well. I guess
> that would be a great options for teams doing WRTC simulation during IARU
> HF. Nobody from public could see private room members real score except
> invited persons.
>
>
> And the last news! For incoming weekend we have prepared the following
> contests:
>
> *-  RAC Canada Day*
> *-  DL-DX-RTTY Contest*
> *-  Venezuelan Ind. Day Contest*
> *-  Marconi Memorial HF Contest*
>
> We have added one more logger to the supported loggers list - QARLogger.
> So we support N1MM+, WinTest, WriteLog, DXLog.net, TR4W and QARLog. A few
> more loggers are in the way. ))
>
> 73!
>
> Victor
>
> VA2WA / VA2WDQ
>
> On 29 June 2017 at 10:10, Mats Strandberg <sm6lrr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Victor,
>>
>> First of all, thanks for sharing the information with us.
>>
>> I started working with your page during the 2nd and 3rd session of CWops
>> CWT yesterday and this morning.
>>
>> My comments are just positive so far. Very easy to hook up to my DXLog
>> program, and I understand that other major contest softwares are supporting
>> the page as well - or the other way around.
>>
>> You helped me very quickly with some issues I had with Marconi Memorial
>> Contest. Excellent quick reaction. I sent some info about your site to our
>> Swedish contest FB page, and several became interested. One guy wanted to
>> also sign up for the Marconi Contest, and he had some issues at first, but
>> I asked him to contact you. Now he is prepared also. Maybe he solved it
>> himself.
>>
>> I have many positive feelings about your project. I also do not like any
>> black list of any contester. We are an international family and I see no
>> reason why anyone should be banned from such a neutral page like an online
>> contest real score site.
>>
>> However, one thing I am missing from "the other site" is that you can get
>> expanded data if logged in. That means that you can compare your band
>> results with other logged in stations. Very interesting and also
>> encouraging to compare and realize where you "might have to put more
>> effort".  Are you planning to add that to your site as well? It would be
>> really useful.
>>
>> Or - are you maybe considering the band information "assistance" to
>> people who are unassisted, and in this way against the rules of some
>> contests? I mean, if you keep good track of your competitors and then
>> realize that they have a good run ion 10 meters, and after that you decide
>> to QSY yourself to that band. Although not really helping someone, this
>> might be considered a little doubtful?  On the other hand, modern radios
>> with waterfalls can do the same very easily, without getting the help to
>> gather calls, but only see the activity quickly on a band.
>>
>> What are your thoughts about this?
>>
>> Anyway, I will use the site for Marconi Memorial and anyone else on this
>> list planning to work MMC, please do the same. Online scoring is fun and
>> this site is a good initiative it seems to me!
>>
>> 73 de Mats RM2D
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2017-06-25 4:58 GMT+03:00 Victor Androsov <victor.androsov at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> We just started a new alternative project (COSB Contest Online Score
>>> Board): https://contestonlinescore.com/.
>>>
>>> The main point is designing an open HAM community trusted server with the
>>> following policies:
>>>
>>> - There are no blacklists like some other projects
>>> - It's an  international team driving project with a code shared between
>>> team members.
>>> - We wish to keep on constant working with HAM community. Means adding,
>>> removing new features in accordance with a HAM community feedback.
>>> - We;d like this server to serve not only the major contests but a lot of
>>> small local communities' events as well. The goal is to cover almost all
>>> the contests as much as possible.
>>>
>>> Technical features:
>>>
>>> - Today we support Win-Test, N1MM+, Writelog and DXlog.net loggers. We
>>> are
>>> going to extend this list shortly.
>>> - Our board is serving multiple contests simultaneously ( for example AA
>>> DX
>>> CW Contest, Ukrainian DX Classic RTTY Contest,Stew Perry Topband
>>> Challenge
>>> and some other contests in the same time). The same call could be used
>>> for
>>> different contest scores in the same day.
>>> - It's a high security server. All the client server communications are
>>> going over SSL. We have implemented McAfee security scanner on the
>>> server.
>>> All the passwords are stored by using strong one-way hashing algorithm.
>>> - Simple as possible online score result table with an optimized minimal
>>> number of tools
>>> - User defined contests. Every user could create a new contest and to
>>> invite friends to join to a kind of "small village" mini contest. (**
>>> This
>>> feature is planned for the Phase 2)
>>> - The "petite chambres" (or private rooms) option. Imagine if some local
>>> club guys want to run a team competition and they wish to limit access to
>>> their scores only for some group members requiring a PIN code. (** This
>>> feature is planned for the Phase 2).
>>>
>>> Please join the project. It's fully functional. And we need your
>>> feedback.
>>> Any comments are welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73!
>>>
>>> Victor
>>>
>>> VA2WA / VA2WDQ
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>>
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