Re: scoring the HSC contest with tlf

[Joop Stakenborg]

Hi Ervin, thanks for the reply!


Op 03-11-19 om 19:56 schreef Ervin Hegedüs:
> Hi Joop,
>
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 05:41:26PM +0100, Joop Stakenborg wrote:
> > I have been using tlf 2 times today: during the ukrainian DX contest and the
> > HSC CW contest. I have managed to write a rules file for the ukrainian, but
> > not for the HSC.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to do this? Multiplier is easy enough with COUNTRY_MULT
> > but how do you score points? It is 5 points for member, who send their
> > member number and 1 point for non-members, who send 'NM'.
> I'm afraid actually you can't do that.
>
> There are so much possibilities to control the scoring, but not
> for this.
>   

So, what would it take to have this added to tlf?

We already have ONEPOINT, TWOPOINTS and THREEPOINTS, can we also have 
FIVEPOINTS? Even better, how about adding points depending on the 
exchange, something like POINTS="NM",1. Using POINTS= would make 
configuration of scoring easier. We could use POINTS=1, POINTS=2, 
POINTS=3, POINTS=5 instead of ONEPOINT, TWOPOINTS and THREEPOINTS or 
even FIVEPOINTS. Of course multiple POINTS= lines would have to be 
possible. For example:

POINTS=5

POINTS="NM",1



> > Also, is there a way for tlf to automatically fill in the member number in
> > the exchange field, like yfktest does?
> yes, I think that could work - see INITIAL_EXCHANGE directive
> (where you're one example :))

Thanks, I will have a look. I am still using yfktest in the CWOPS mini 
CWT contest, but would like to migrate to tlf completely because 
development of yfktest has stopped.

> 73, Ervin
> HA2OS

73 de Joop PG4I