[TRLog] How To: Adding a New Contest?

[George Fremin III - K5TR]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 10:25:53AM -0400, Mark Adams wrote:
> 
> QRP To The Field 2000, one of the big QRP field contests, is due up Saturday 
> Arpil 29th. It will use a report and scoring that is not appearantly 

One problem with adding this as a contest is that 
the contest rules change each year so the special 
categories are diffrent each time this event is run.

> The exchange is RST, SPC, Location Category.

You might try using KIDS DAY exchange type.
This will let you enter anything in the exchagne field.
It will not count your mults or keep track of the 
catagories but it would let you log in realtime.

After the contest you could sort the log several diffrent 
ways to count the SPCs and the catagories.

Or you might try to talk Tree into adding an exchange type of:

RST POSSIBLE DOMESTIC EXCHAGNE AND RANDOM CHARACTERS

This would then keep track fo your QTH mults but it would 
not igve you points for the catagories - but again you could do a
sort on the log after the contest and score it.  Since you 
will not be making 2000 qsos this should not be a big task.


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