[RTTY] Submitting Score on 3830

[Michael Dinkelman]

ah..., my bad and my apologies

when reading the original posts, my addled brain substituted 
"Total Score" for "Total Points". 

I'll ask Bruce, who manages the page if the column is really needed.
If WAE CW and WAE SSB don't have it, I imagine RTTY doesn't.

cheers
dink, n7wa





----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ferch <ve3iay at storm.ca>
To: "rtty at contesting.com" <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 5:57:37 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Submitting Score on 3830

Dink,

I think you have missed the point. The question is, why is there a 
points column at all? For a contest like WAE RTTY where all QSOs have 
the same point value, what is the purpose of the Pts column?

In the score submittal forms for the WAE CW and WAE SSB contests, there 
was no Pts column, just QSOs, QTCs and Mults. It's true that there are 
some differences in the rules between WAE RTTY and CW/SSB, but they do 
not affect the scoring. The score calculation for WAE RTTY is identical 
to the score calculation for CW and SSB, so why is the 3830 score 
submittal form different?

73,
Rich VE3KI

N7WA wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Everything in red on the 3830 submission page is a required field. It
> says so
> in the instructions at the top of the page. The points total is a
> required field
> because 99% of the people posting a submission WANT to enter a
> points total. When they accidentally forget,  it's a bigger hassle
> for us to fix that than for the occasional oddity that requires a 000
> entry.
>
> By entering 000,  you, at least, have acknowledged that you didn't
> accidentally forget to enter data in a required field. Hope that helps
> explain why a points total is required.
>
> cheers
> dink, n7wa
>
>
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