Re: trouble scoring the LZ-DX contest

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Joop,


Am Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:30:22 +0100
schrieb Joop Stakenborg <address@hidden>:

> First of all, thanks for the new release! I have started using tlf a
> few weeks ago, very happy!
> 
Nice to hear.
> 
> I am having trouble scoring the lz-dx contest. Points are okay, but 
> multipliers not. The multiplier is either the ITU zone or the LZ 
> district. So I would like to have something like ITU_&_SECTIONS,
> which would work the same as DX_&_SECTIONS.
> 
Sigh, it is a trouble with those 'creative' contest designers (Rant
off).

You are right, at the moment there is no solution for your problem.
Scoring your contest results will be correct, as it is done by the
contest organizer. But we would want at least a good guess how we are
doing.

The keyword suggested by you (ITU_&_SECTIONS, or better
ZONE_&_SECTIONS) would work (and could be added in the next version of
TLF). 

But I fear there will be another combination of multipliers
poping up soon which we do not have in our repertoire.
So a better solution is needed - same goes for point scoring.

I did some investigation how other contest programs solve these problem.
One of the ideas there are to classify multipliers into some main
categories:

- Country/DXCC
- Zone CQ or ITU
- Prefix 
- section or similar

With that we could allow more to count more than one category as multi
and would need additional rules how to combine the values (add if more
than one or score only one) and how to count on different
bands (BY-BAND or ONCE). Than your ITU_&_SECTION could be something
like:

COUNTRY_MULT = DXCC,BY_BAND
ZONE_MULT = ITU,BY_BAND ADD

I am not sure if that would catch all or at least most of the multi
scoring problems for existing contests. 

Feedback on that is very much welcome.

73, de Tom DL1JBE

> 
> Here is part of my rules file, which does not work properly
> (lz_dx_mults attached):
> 
> 
> #################################
> #  CONTEST PARAMETERS
> #################################
> #
> MULT_LIST=lz_dx_mults
> COUNTRYLIST=LZ
> SECTION_MULT
> ITUMULT
> #
> #################################
> #  POINTS LIST
> #################################
> #
> COUNTRY_LIST_POINTS=10
> MY_CONTINENT_POINTS=1
> DX_POINTS=3
> 
> 
> 



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