Re: Problems with CQ-M contest / a 3rd way

[Thomas Beierlein]

There is another way to fix the problem but needs quite more work.

Write all countries from AS into an file and use it for COUNTRYLIST.
Set COUTNRY_LIST_POINTS to 2.

The format of the file should be:

contestname: cty1, cty2, cty3, ....

The line HAS to start with the contest name (CONTEST=....) and should
be no longer than 250 characters. If needed use additional lines (all
starting with the contestname).

Further set MY_COUNTRY_POINTS and MY_CONTINENT_POINTS to 2 and
DX_POINTS to 3.

That should work with the current implementation.

73, de Tom

Am Fri, 8 May 2020 09:56:55 +0200
schrieb Thomas Beierlein <address@hidden>:

> 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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