Hi Joop,
Am Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:30:22 +0100 schrieb Joop Stakenborg <joop.stakenb...@xs4all.nl>: > First of all, thanks for the new release! I have started using tlf a > few weeks ago, very happy! > Nice to hear. > > I am having trouble scoring the lz-dx contest. Points are okay, but > multipliers not. The multiplier is either the ITU zone or the LZ > district. So I would like to have something like ITU_&_SECTIONS, > which would work the same as DX_&_SECTIONS. > Sigh, it is a trouble with those 'creative' contest designers (Rant off). You are right, at the moment there is no solution for your problem. Scoring your contest results will be correct, as it is done by the contest organizer. But we would want at least a good guess how we are doing. The keyword suggested by you (ITU_&_SECTIONS, or better ZONE_&_SECTIONS) would work (and could be added in the next version of TLF). But I fear there will be another combination of multipliers poping up soon which we do not have in our repertoire. So a better solution is needed - same goes for point scoring. I did some investigation how other contest programs solve these problem. One of the ideas there are to classify multipliers into some main categories: - Country/DXCC - Zone CQ or ITU - Prefix - section or similar With that we could allow more to count more than one category as multi and would need additional rules how to combine the values (add if more than one or score only one) and how to count on different bands (BY-BAND or ONCE). Than your ITU_&_SECTION could be something like: COUNTRY_MULT = DXCC,BY_BAND ZONE_MULT = ITU,BY_BAND ADD I am not sure if that would catch all or at least most of the multi scoring problems for existing contests. Feedback on that is very much welcome. 73, de Tom DL1JBE > > Here is part of my rules file, which does not work properly > (lz_dx_mults attached): > > > ################################# > # CONTEST PARAMETERS > ################################# > # > MULT_LIST=lz_dx_mults > COUNTRYLIST=LZ > SECTION_MULT > ITUMULT > # > ################################# > # POINTS LIST > ################################# > # > COUNTRY_LIST_POINTS=10 > MY_CONTINENT_POINTS=1 > DX_POINTS=3 > > > -- "Do what is needful!" Ursula LeGuin: Earthsea --
