[WT-support] Fwd: Announcing getscores.org: A Live Logging Portal

[Gerry Hull]

Dear Oliver & Win-Test Users,

I posted this message to the CQ-Contest reflector and a number of other
sites the other day.
Please see my questions about Win-Test below this message:

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From: Gerry Hull <gerry at w1ve.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: Announcing getscores.org: A Live Logging Portal


Fellow Contesters,

Through the encouragement of many, I deceided to take on the project of
creating a usable web portal for realtime score reporting.
The result is now ready for beta testing.   It will be fully functional for
the CQWW SSB and SS CW contests.   You can view the portal at
http://live.getscores.org

The scoring upload to the site is based on work by Bruce, WA7BMN, with his
Contest XML schema, and scoring trials last year by Tom, N1MM and the N1MM
logger.

We have been testing the site with the N1MM logger.   The latest version of
N1MM fully supports score posting.   If any other contest software vendor
supports the HTTP POST method of score reporting, it is immediately
compatible with getscores.org.  Additionally, getscores.org supports a
SOAP-based Web Service API.   The success of the site will depend on
participation and the support of software vendors.   There are links on the
live.getscores.org site for FAQs.

The viewing site supports many filters, so that you can look at only what
you want to look at.  Filter by Class, Power, CQ Zone, IARU Zone, State/Prov
and lots more.   Your filter preferences are saved as a cookie by your
browser for up to 7 days.   The page automatically refreshes every 60
seconds with score information.

Currently, the site reports full score information.   The Upload API
supports breakdowns, and these are being stored internally, however, I'm
still working on the best method to display this information.  Sending of
breakdowns is up to the user and is fully optional (as determined by the
contest software vendor.)

Support for all the contests listed on the site will be fully operational
soon, as well as an RSS feed.  Stay tuned.

If you have any questions or suggestions about the site, please send them to
me at the email addresses provided on the site, or via gerry at w1ve.com

As we get closer to CQWW, I'll be looking at the site to ensure it is fully
operational under load.  It is hosted at a very large facility with high
burst-bandwidth capabilities.

73,

Gerry, W1VE

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 We have had a tremendous positive response from the users of N1MM, due to
the availability of a client which automatically posts scores to the site
using the public domain xml format specified by WA7BNM.

I have put significant effort into building this site, and I'd like to see
lots of contesters reporting their live scores this season.  To that end, I
want to ensure users of Win-Test can participate.

I've downloaded the trial version of Wintest -- and, Oliver, I must say I am
impressed!  Nice implementation.

Further, I am a software engineer -- and so I immediately looked for a way
to get score posting information from your application.   I was pleased to
read the documentation of your SUMMARY information frames.   However, I
never see these frames being sent across the network?  Is their some special
configuration to enable them?  I've turned on the checkbox in configuration,
but still not seeing them.   What is the issue?

I'm willing to build a small application to monitor the network and upload
the score information to the site (unless some Win-Test user is already
doing this.)

I'd like to get on this right away, so it will be ready for CQ-WW SSB at end
end of the month.

73, Gerry, W1VE (also VE1RM, VY2CDX, VO1WIN, etc.)
One of the ops at K1IR M/S
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