Re: trouble scoring the LZ-DX contest

[jim smith]

Thomas,

Just throwing out an idea here, would it be possible to have one
keyword (say CUSTOM) for the rules file, and for that particular
contest the user could build their own multiplier file?  Might be
tedious once, but might provide an interim work-around until something
more sophisticated could be implemented.

--
73, Jim N0OCT


On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:19:14 +0100
Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
>