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

Thu Nov 23 11:12:31 EST 2017

The latest update of Nov 23:

The score sharing implementation is going well. Yesterday we have
configured Contest Online Score board server to forward to the Score
Distribution server all the internal postings coming from COSB users
directly . The Score Distribution server forwards them to cqcontest.net if
a particular contest is supported by cqcontest.net. That means all the
score spots published on the https://contestonlinescore.com/scoreboard/
will be automatically published on the cqcontest.net as well. To finish
this phase we just need cqcontest.net to do the same. Once that will be
done we get a real score cluster everybody is waiting for so much ))  That
would be no difference which server link is in a logger real score server
configuration. Wherever score will be sent they will appear on all board
servers in a cluster (if a particular contest is supported by a particular
score board).

But we still have some tasks to be done after that. We need to come up with
a common solution about user authentication, server replay message
unification and some others. We'll keep you posted.

For the coming this weekend CQ WW CW we still asking you to configure your
logger to send your CQ WW real scores to the following URL:

http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php

By using this link your score will be published on both score board servers.

Good luck in the CQ WW CW!

73!

Victor
VA2WA

The https://contestonlinescore.com team

On 21 November 2017 at 13:01, Victor Androsov <victor.androsov at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Some corrections to the previous post. We made a mistake in the Contest
> Online Score board server URL. The right announce should be like the
> following:
>
>
> We need more volunteers for CQ WW CW testing!
> It’s easy:
>
>
> 1.  Register an account on both servers (http://cqcontest.net and
> https://contestonlinescore.com )
>
> 2. Configure your logger with the following real score server URL:
> http://www.b41h.net/scoredistributor.php
>
> 3. Participate at least few hours in the CQ WW CW
>
> 73!
>
> Victor
> VA2WA
>
>
>>
>> On 20 November 2017 at 23:02, Victor Androsov <victor.androsov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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://contestonlinescore.com
>>> <https://contestonlinescore.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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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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