Re: [Tlf-devel] Issues while trying to build a Nevada QSO Party rules file

[Thomas Beierlein]

Hi Ben,

just let me try to give some hints.

Am Mon, 07 May 2012 01:11:35 -0400
schrieb Ben Coleman NJ8J <address@hidden>:

> Recently, I sat down to start putting together a rules file for the 
> upcoming Nevada QSO party.  I plan to play in a number of QSO Parties 
> this year(plus things like NAQP), and I had figured on putting
> together rules files for them and contributing them back so they
> could be included in the TLF package.  

Do you have a link for the rules? 

> As I'm sure you're not surprised, some parts of the rules for this 
> particular contest don't quite fit tlf's rules set up.  I'm hoping
> that if I point out where the problems are for this, and for other
> contests I try to make rules for later, it might point to some bug
> fixes and wish list items for future tlf development.  I hope to help
> make tlf rules flexible enough to handle most any contests, and then
> the users can contribute rules sets for contests.
> 
Well, TLF's rule set grow over the time as Rein added contest by contest
and also some additional addons. But we still miss a universal rule set
which allows us to handle nearly every contest.

Martin OK1RR promised last year to come up with some suggestions but I
fear he did not find time to do so.

> Some of these things might be my misunderstandings.  I haven't so far 
> been able to find documentation on the rules file.  If it's out
> there, but I've missed it, please point me to it.  If it's not, this
> seems to me to be a good addition to the TODO  list.
> 
As you found in meantime some of the documentation is in the old web
page for the 0.9.9 version. But it is dated and not very accurate. Much
more actual is the man page and the documentation of the different
config and rule parameters disceussed there. I would suggest to use
both in combination.

> Things I've run into with NVQP:
> 
> 1.  I've set up a multiplier file of Nevada counties, used MULT_LIST
> and SECTION_MULT.  Problem is that when using SECTION_MULT, tlf seems
> to assume that multipliers count per band, except for the hard-coded 
> exception of ARRL Sweepstakes, and NVQP doesn't count multipliers per 
> band.  We need a SECTION_MULT equivalent of WYSIWYG_ONCE.

I will look into the code to see if it is possible in next days.
> 
> 2.  This is a MIXED contest, and qso points are different for phone
> vs CW/Digital (2 for phone, 3, for CW/Digital).  Tlf doesn't handle
> that.
> 
Did you try to assign 'CWPOINTS=...' and 'SSBPOINTS=...'?

Let me know how it goes, maybe add your actual rule file. 

73, de Tom DL1JBE.



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