Re: Problems with CQ-M contest

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi,

you are right. After CQM changed their scoring rules we got a problem.
Thanks for pointing it out. 

I did a quick check of the code. As it looks the CONTINENTLIST features
is not well thoughed out. It is used to control acceptance of countries
as multi and also to control the given points (but only if
USE_CONTINENTLIST_ONLY is set). There seems to be still some more
problems.

If USE_CONTINENTLIST_ONLY is set you have to give points to your own
continent with MY_CONTINENT_POINTS even if it is in the list (that
fixes the -1 for european stations).
But the downside is that other continents not in list will not scored
at all, neither for multi nor for points.

That means in current version there is no workable configuration for the
problem.

As for the coming contest:

- you can just set TWO_POINTS in the rules and accept that stations
  from continents beside EU and AS are counted wrong

- I will try to prepare a quickfix, but am not sure if I can make it in
  time.

73, de Tom DL1JBE

Am Thu, 7 May 2020 23:48:38 +0100
schrieb SP3RXO <address@hidden>:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to set tlf 1.4.1 for CQ-M Contest and either I'm doing 
> something wrong or tlf.
> In this contest both Asia and Europe as Eurasia giving 2 points per
> QSO. So in my rules file:
> 
> CONTINENTLIST=EU,AS
> CONTINENT_LIST_POINTS=2
> SHORT_SERIAL
> COUNTRY_MULT
> SERIAL_EXCHANGE
> 
> Efect: Tlf giving for both EU and AS stations 0 (zero) points. Bad.
> 
> I went on playing with rules file and I added USE_CONTINENT_LIST_ONLY 
> just for check:
> 
> CONTINENTLIST=EU,AS
> CONTINENT_LIST_POINTS=2
> USE_CONTINENT_LIST_ONLY
> SHORT_SERIAL
> COUNTRY_MULT
> SERIAL_EXCHANGE
> 
> Now AS stations are worth 2 points (correct), but EU stations... -1 
> (minus 1 point).
> 
> Screen shot1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnbhzpnq1wdnqq2/cqm.png?dl=0
> Screen shot2 https://www.dropbox.com/s/f59lr2c1y51ox3e/log.png?dl=0
> 
> Any ideas whats going wrong?
> 
> Thanks,



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