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N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest
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We want to have an internal club competition for our club's 50th anniversary. All next year, invite club members to do special event activities and have then log to a unified database, or in some way that the club secretary can send out the club QSL cards, for the contacts made, to the contact's address, all the while keeping track of who has how many contacts, in one band, in what mode, etc.
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Scott Davis
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your e-mail. I'm afraid you have lost me. How will you track a competition among members, when they are all logging to the same database?
All our contest programs are contest specific, so if you choose to have each member log to their own database, you will need to choose a program that meets the scoring rules for your contest (or structure your contest rules to mirror an existing contest).
Please see this FAQ here for more insights into what goes into designing and supporting a contest:
https://www.n3fjp.com/faq.html#q123
Enjoy!
73, Scott
N3FJP
Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging software since 1997.
1 Peter 3 vs 15: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...
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From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Sun, Nov 27, 2022 10:03 am Subject: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest We want to have an internal club competition for our club's 50th anniversary.
All next year, invite club members to do special event activities and have then log to a unified database, or in some way that the club secretary can send out the club QSL cards, for the contacts made, to the contact's address, all the while keeping track of who has how many contacts, in one band, in what mode, etc.
And do this for various home and on-location special event activations throughout the year. Is this possible with some mode of the N3FJP software? --
Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com |
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video <video@...>
Well, it's just a total number of contacts per person contest right now, although I can see us giving club awards for most countries, most bands or modes operated, etc. I wanted to find a way so that multiple operators, operating at
home, or on-location throughout the whole year, could have their
contacts pooled in a central database that an administrator could
oversee and be sending out QSL cards for throughout the year. So in my unknowledgable programming experience- each person would
have an account and somehow tie into the club's 50th anniversary
contest, so that when they make contacts, and enter the QSL
information, it becomes part of the overall log, and also
attributable to that operator. Each operator can access their own
contacts in case they made a band or mode error that needs to be
corrected, and an administrator needs to be able to pull all the
QSL information from the database so that QSL cards can be set out
on a month by month basis. --
Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On 11/28/22 4:45 AM, Scott Davis via
groups.io wrote:
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Scott Davis
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your follow up and additional detail. Our software is designed to have an individual database for each user (or team of users in multi op). ARRL, CQ, etc. have software to process and tally the submittals. As we are not on the processing end, I'm afraid we don't have anything like that.
I'm sorry that I didn't have the answer that you were hoping for.
Enjoy!
73, Scott
N3FJP Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging software since 1997.
1 Peter 3 vs 15: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...
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From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 11:08 am Subject: Re: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest Well, it's just a total number of contacts per person contest
right now, although I can see us giving club awards for most
countries, most bands or modes operated, etc.
I wanted to find a way so that multiple operators, operating at
home, or on-location throughout the whole year, could have their
contacts pooled in a central database that an administrator could
oversee and be sending out QSL cards for throughout the year.
So in my unknowledgable programming experience- each person would
have an account and somehow tie into the club's 50th anniversary
contest, so that when they make contacts, and enter the QSL
information, it becomes part of the overall log, and also
attributable to that operator. Each operator can access their own
contacts in case they made a band or mode error that needs to be
corrected, and an administrator needs to be able to pull all the
QSL information from the database so that QSL cards can be set out
on a month by month basis.
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Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On 11/28/22 4:45 AM, Scott Davis via
groups.io wrote:
Hi
Anthony,
Thanks for your e-mail.
I'm afraid you have lost me. How will you track a
competition among members, when they are all logging
to the same database?
All our contest programs
are contest specific, so if you choose to have each
member log to their own database, you will need to
choose a program that meets the scoring rules for your
contest (or structure your contest rules to mirror an
existing contest).
Please see this FAQ here
for more insights into what goes into designing and
supporting a contest:
Enjoy!
73, Scott
N3FJP
Serving the Amateur Radio community with
contesting and general logging software since
1997.
1 Peter 3 vs 15: Always be
prepared to give an answer to everyone who
asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with
gentleness and respect...
-----Original Message-----
From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Sun, Nov 27, 2022 10:03 am Subject: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest We want to have an internal club
competition for our club's 50th anniversary.
All next year, invite club members to do
special event activities and have then log to
a unified database, or in some way that the
club secretary can send out the club QSL
cards, for the contacts made, to the contact's
address, all the while keeping track of who
has how many contacts, in one band, in what
mode, etc.
And do this for various home and on-location special event activations throughout the year. Is this possible with some mode of the N3FJP software? --
Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com |
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AI3KS
Scott, Anthony,
Maybe I'm off base here, but if the log database was placed in a shared location, couldn't each user log into that common file and use the Setup Form to enter their personal information? The administrator could then filter the file by operator, initials, or whatever to pull statistics. Alternatively, could each individual keep their own log and periodically upload the ADIF to a shared location and the administrator could then merge them using something like ADIF Master and calculate the stats from there? Just thinking out loud. Steve, AI3KS |
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Jim Storms
I assume they would be using your club call for those contacts. It is possible to have the database in the cloud such as Dropbox and give everyone access. Not sure how well that would work but is a possibility.
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video <video@...>
I think that could work, but with a few ops "less than
technically proficient" with the internet, I'd be worried that
different people downloading and trying to update a log file with
their data could lose data. Jim suggested using Dropbox, so everyone is accessing the same
file, but I don't know how Dropbox handles updating the cloud file
of two people write to their localized dropbox file and both try
to sync to the cloud file at the same time? Who wins? It's not a
Google doc where multiple people can update it at the same time.
It's an either/or situation. --
Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On 11/28/22 10:46 AM, AI3KS wrote:
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video <video@...>
So, as an alternative, is there a mode, or setup we could use for each operator to set the app to, so that one person, say our secretary, could combine individual log files into one master log, and add new event logs each month as they are created? As long as each operator set it up with the same "contest" when they started up? And then, is there a way to automate the lookup of QSL addresses
for sending out the cards? --
Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On 11/28/22 10:25 AM, Scott Davis via
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Scott Davis
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your follow up. Participants can e-mail their logs as ADIF files, which your secretary could import into a master log. Make sure each participant enters their call sign on the Setup form in the Operator field before making any QSOs, so you can differentiate who made each QSO record.
Your secretary is going to have to be proficient in managing multiple log files, keeping backups, etc. You know your participants will inevitably send wrong and corrected files, so that person will have to be able to rebuild the master log as needed again from previously merged data.
Mailing addresses can be printed from AC Log using whatever callbook lookup service is selected.
Enjoy!
73, Scott
N3FJP Serving the Amateur Radio community with contesting and general logging software since 1997.
1 Peter 3 vs 15: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect...
-----Original Message-----
From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 1:25 pm Subject: Re: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest So, as an alternative, is there a mode, or setup we could use for
each operator to set the app to, so that one person, say our
secretary, could combine individual log files into one master log,
and add new event logs each month as they are created? As long as
each operator set it up with the same "contest" when they started
up?
And then, is there a way to automate the lookup of QSL addresses
for sending out the cards?
--
Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On 11/28/22 10:25 AM, Scott Davis via
groups.io wrote:
Hi Anthony,
Thanks for your follow up and additional detail.
Our software is designed to have an individual
database for each user (or team of users in multi
op). ARRL, CQ, etc. have software to process and
tally the submittals. As we are not on the processing
end, I'm afraid we don't have anything like that.
I'm sorry that I didn't have the answer that you
were hoping for.
Enjoy!
73, Scott
N3FJP
Serving the Amateur Radio community with
contesting and general logging software since
1997.
1 Peter 3 vs 15: Always be
prepared to give an answer to everyone who
asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with
gentleness and respect...
-----Original Message-----
From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 11:08 am Subject: Re: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest Well, it's just a total number of
contacts per person contest right now,
although I can see us giving club awards for
most countries, most bands or modes
operated, etc.
I wanted to find a way so that multiple
operators, operating at home, or on-location
throughout the whole year, could have their
contacts pooled in a central database that
an administrator could oversee and be
sending out QSL cards for throughout the
year.
So in my unknowledgable programming
experience- each person would have an
account and somehow tie into the club's 50th
anniversary contest, so that when they make
contacts, and enter the QSL information, it
becomes part of the overall log, and also
attributable to that operator. Each
operator can access their own contacts in
case they made a band or mode error that
needs to be corrected, and an administrator
needs to be able to pull all the QSL
information from the database so that QSL
cards can be set out on a month by month
basis.
--
Anthony Burokas <> 215-632-3283 <> CEO IEBA Communications, LLC <> http://IEBA.com — Stream4.us — Frisco Studios — Contributing Editor: StreamingMedia.com/Producer -- On
11/28/22 4:45 AM, Scott Davis via groups.io
wrote:
Hi
Anthony,
Thanks
for your e-mail. I'm afraid you
have lost me. How will you track
a competition among members, when
they are all logging to the same
database?
All
our contest programs are contest
specific, so if you choose to have
each member log to their own
database, you will need to choose
a program that meets the scoring
rules for your contest (or
structure your contest rules to
mirror an existing contest).
Please
see this FAQ here for more
insights into what goes into
designing and supporting a
contest:
Enjoy!
73,
Scott
N3FJP
Serving the Amateur
Radio community with
contesting and general
logging software since
1997.
1 Peter 3
vs 15: Always be
prepared to give an
answer to everyone who
asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect...
-----Original
Message-----
From: video <video@...> To: N3FJPSoftwareUsers@groups.io Sent: Sun, Nov 27, 2022 10:03 am Subject: [N3FJPSoftwareUsers] N3FJP for internal club contest? #contest We want to have an
internal club competition
for our club's 50th
anniversary.
All next year, invite
club members to do special
event activities and have
then log to a unified
database, or in some way
that the club secretary
can send out the club QSL
cards, for the contacts
made, to the contact's
address, all the while
keeping track of who has
how many contacts, in one
band, in what mode, etc.
And do this for various home and on-location special event activations throughout the year. Is this possible with some mode of the N3FJP software? --
Anthony Burokas General Class Ham (KB3DVS) VP: Plano Amateur Radio Klub – http://k5prk.net 25-year video producer — IEBA.com |
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