Re: [Tlf-devel] Tlf scoring for Stew Perry?

[Ervin Hegedüs]

Hello Mike,

On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 08:24:55PM -0600, Mike Waters wrote:
> Thanks to Pat's help via e-mail, I was able to get tlf working for the ARRL
> 160. I have never used tlf before, and love it. I noticed that tlf's
> constant score update feature adds to the enjoyment of the contest as well
> as providing some incentive to keep going when a body gets tired. :-)
> 
> I know that tlf can be used in the Stew Perry for logging, but will not
> display the score. I would really, REALLY like to see it display the
> running score for the Stew (at the end of this month), which is based on
> the distance between grid squares.
> 
> I just did some searching and found some C source that I believe could be
> used for that here:
> 
> http://dev.unclassified.de/en/source/locator-distance
> http://dev.unclassified.de/en/source/maidenheadlocator
> 
> There are links on those pages that appear to lead to more useful code,
> including Pascal, which I used to program in years ago. I've done very
> little in C.
> 
> I know nothing about the C source structure of tlf, and I was wondering if
> anyone could steer us in the right direction. I would appreciate any advice.

may be I can help you in this - I otherwise be of interest of
distance calculation based on grid, and extend Tlf to VHF
contests. So, let's do it :)


73,

Ervin
HA2OS