[CQ-Contest] Sharing contest real time scores between servers

[Victor Androsov]

November 20 update :


The first test of the new real-time scoring technology “online score
distribution server” went well! We had 11 volunteers from USA, Canada,
Italy, Russia and Scotland over last weekend. All the volunteers’ scores
were successfully forwarded to COSB and cqcontest.net. But I hope that was
just a first try. Thanks a lot to these brave guys! ))


Sure we had some issues. The first one was with WriteLog postings (fixed
quickly by Bruce, WA7BNM) and another one with cqcontest.net  (fixed later
by Dmitry, R4WW). But, few problems for the first test. ))


*We need more volunteers for CQ WW CW testing!*

It’s easy:


1.  Register an account on both servers (*http://cqcontest.net
<http://cqcontest.net/>* and *https://contestonlinescoreboard.com
<https://contestonlinescoreboard.com/>* )


2. Configure your logger with the following real score server
URL:*http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php
<http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php>*


3. Participate at least few hours in the CQ WW CW


You can always use this configuration since you can participate in any
other contest and the distribution server will automatically forward your
scores to all the servers that support that contest, without any further
changes to your logger settings - kind of real score cluster. That’s
actually the target of all of our activities.


On our side we have already started updating our “Logger settings” document
to encourage all the HAM’s to use a distribution server URL as a primary
one.


Good luck in CQ WW CW! And don’t forget to provide your feedback! We very
much appreciate for your help.



73!

Victor
VA2WA

The https://contestonlinescore.com team

On 18 November 2017 at 11:15, Giuseppe Giunta <it9vdq at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great Victor!
> Tnx de Giu IT9VDQ
> one of IB9T
>
> Il 18 Nov 2017 11:43, "Victor Androsov" <victor.androsov at gmail.com> ha
> scritto:
>
>> I'm glad to make a first announcement about some promising progress in
>> sharing real score data between servers.
>>
>> Few months ago we've started communication with Dmitry, R4WW the owner of
>> the well known real score server cqcontest.net. We have agreed to
>> cooperate
>> on sharing score data. On the same time we received a beautiful initiative
>> form Bruce, WA7BNM who came up with a brilliant idea of a score
>> distribution server. The score distributor is meant as an easy way to post
>> live scores to all active scoreboards:
>>
>> 1. The distribution server posts scores it receives to all scoreboards
>> 2. It only posts scores to a scoreboard for a contest if that contest is
>> supported by that scoreboard
>> 3. It doesn't post scores to a scoreboard, from which it received a score
>> POST
>>
>> That sounds like a beginning of real time score cluster. That wouldn't be
>> important which URL has been configured in a user loger since all the
>> posts
>> finally be delivered to ALL active score board servers supporting current
>> contest.
>>
>> Bruce just made my day by sending today a message saying a test version of
>> the distribution server is ready to go! Now we are ready to test options
>> 1-2 (score postings could be sent to a distribution server and after to be
>> distributed between cqcontest.net and contestonlinescore.com servers).
>>
>> We need volunteers who are ready to do the following:
>>
>> 1. to register accounts on both servers (https://cqcontest.net and
>> http://contestonlinescoreboard.com )
>>
>> 2. configure your logger with the following real score server URL:
>> http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php (username a password could be
>> empty since we don't use authentication during the first QA phase).
>>
>> 3. participate at least few hours  in the coming contests: ARRL SS SSB and
>> CQ WW CW
>>
>> 4. Share with us your experience about how things go with posting to
>> both servers. Please pay attention to score posting timing. Are any delays
>> with your score publishing on both servers? Is your logger posting status
>> clear?  Your feedback about anything else related to postings would be
>> very
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 73!
>>
>> Victor
>> VA2WA
>>
>> The https://contestonlinescore.com team
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