Re: [CQ-Contest] The Next BIG Step in contesting

["Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev@arrl.net>]

Hello Listmembers.

Most of you probably don't know me.  I'm a long time VHF contester.  I 
was told about this thread and joined the list today.  When I floated a 
similar idea over a month ago on the VHFContesting list I was summarily 
met with the "sound of one hand clapping". :)

Even so...it seems that this list may have more a more visionary 
membership so here I go...

Rather than a website, I envision a dashboard for each 
participant...showing their relative position against other competitors 
in several categories.  Once every 10-minutes (or so) participants' 
software uploads a cabrillo header to a central Internet server.  It 
parses out the information and sends back statistics (see below).

As an ice-braker (don't get wrapped up in the details...take this as a 
concept) imagine a dashboard that could display data like this for each 
participant...on their computer screen (and update it every 10-minutes 
or so):

Category  Category  Division  %-ile
          [SO-LP]   [Atlantic]
--------  --------  --------  -----
Score vs. All   and All          81
Score vs. Same  and All          93
Score vs. Same  and Same        100

QSO's vs. All   and All          78
QSO's vs. Same  and All          89
QSO's vs. Same  and Same         98

Mults vs. All   and All          84
Mults vs. Same  and All          96
Mults vs. Same  and Same        100
--------  --------  --------  -----

Conceptually, this could be v-e-r-y cool and *highly* motivating.  Does 
anyone else think so, too?  Is it worthy of fleshing out more?

Kind regards,
Ev Tupis, W2EV


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