REF, the Ukrainian DX contest, the BARTG Sprint, ARRL 10M, Russian DX RTTY,
RDAC, YO DX HF, Oceania DX, IARU Region 1 Field Day, SARTG RTTY, All Asian and
SA 10. Every contest name in the log now opens, and every one of these but
Field Day scores its log contact for contact as N1MM did.
Most are written from N1MM's own class and checked against the log. Three
things the log settled that the class does not say plainly: ARRL 10M counts its
multipliers once per mode rather than once, the BARTG Sprint counts a continent
once in the contest while its countries and call areas count per band, and RDAC
counts nothing but the districts and scores nothing for a station that sends
none.
All Asian and SA 10 have no class in N1MM, which logs them from a .udc file, so
those two are written from the published rules and the log. docs/unfinished.md
lists what is still not settled.
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Four more of the contests in the station's log. IOTA, CQ 160 and Mexico RTTY
score every contact in it exactly as N1MM did.
IOTA pays 15 points for a station that sends an island reference and 2 for one
that does not, and counts each reference once per band and mode. CQ 160 is one
band, so its states and countries count once each. Mexico RTTY and CQ 160 both
take a state from one side of the contest and a serial or a zone from the
other, in the columns N1MM keeps them in.
The EU DX Contest is written from N1MM's class, including its list of what
counts as Europe: the European Union, its outermost regions and its overseas
territories, and nothing else. The station's own logs were made with the .udc
file, which scores and counts two things differently; docs/unfinished.md says
which.
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Both are in the station's log and neither could be opened. The rules are
written from the published ones and checked by replaying the log.
YOTA scores a contact by the age the other operator sends: 13 points down to 10
for anyone 25 or under, whatever the continent, and 1 point or 3 for everyone
else. Every age worked on a band is a multiplier. The 2024, 2025 and 2026 logs
come out to the contact.
OK/OM DX is the first contest whose exchange differs by the other station's
country: a county from OK and OM stations, a serial number from everyone else,
in the two columns N1MM keeps them in, and `SkipsField` walks the entry window
past the box that does not apply. Points depend on which side the operator is
on, and Czechia and Slovakia count as the two countries they are. The 2023 log
comes out to the contact.
The Cabrillo exchange now gets the entry, because YOTA sends an age that only
the contest setup knows.
Two differences are left in the log, both from the .udc files the operator
used: their YOTA file only lists ages 7 to 25, so a younger operator scored as
an adult, and one OK/OM log was made with the file for stations outside OK and
OM while signing an OM call.
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WAE is two contests in one. The QSOs are scored like any other, except that a
multiplier is worth four on 80 metres, three on 40 and two on the high bands, so
Multiplier grew a weight and ScoreTally sums weights rather than counting.
Europe works the rest of the world and the rest of the world works Europe; on
RTTY that rule is dropped and everybody works everybody.
The other half is QTC traffic: one station reads back contacts it has already
made, ten to a series, and every line is a point for both stations. Those lines
live in the log as rows of their own, exactly where N1MM puts them — Exchange1
says SQTC or RQTC, the reported contact's time, call and number go in the sent
report, received report and sent number columns, and the series in misc text.
So a log written by either program opens in the other with its traffic intact.
A QTC row is not a worked station: Contest.IsContact says so, and ContestLog
keeps such rows out of the dupe index and the multiplier index while still
counting their points. Cabrillo writes them as QTC: records.
Checked against eight real WAE logs rather than against my own reading of the
rules. Points agree with N1MM on all eight, to the contact. Weighted
multipliers agree on the six logs from 2022 on; the two older ones differ only
where the country file has since changed its mind, and in one place on purpose:
N1MM counts a callsign it cannot place as a multiplier with an empty value.
That comparison turned up two bugs of ours. A KG4 call is Guantanamo Bay only
when it is three or five characters long — KG4NE is, KG4IGC is an ordinary US
call — and the country file cannot say so, so every program that reads it
carries the rule. And Callsign is a record holding a list of modifiers, so the
generated equality compared that list by reference and two parses of one call
came out different.
Entering QTCs while operating is not there yet; the window is next.
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Three things stopped it.
A contest is keyed by ContestNR, not by ContestID. ContestID is only the
ContestInstance table's primary key; DXLOG.ContestNR refers to ContestNR, which
is what N1MM's SQLWhereString matches on. The two agree in a fresh log and
drift apart in one that has been used for a while, so we were reading one
contest's header with another contest's contacts. In a real log of 56284
contacts, joining on ContestID disagreed with the contact's own ContestName
52029 times; joining on ContestNR disagreed 109 times.
N1MM names a contest per mode: CQWWCW, CQWWSSB, CQWWRTTY, never plain CQWW.
Our contests now use those names, and N1mmContestNames turns one back into a
contest and a mode when a log is opened. The name carries the mode, so it beats
the ModeCategory column. Plain CQWW still opens, because older versions wrote
it that way.
The log columns were sized by counting characters, which was too narrow for the
headers: those are drawn in the theme's font, not the grid's monospace. The
grid sizes them now, with the character count as a floor so a column of short
values does not collapse.
Bandmap spots now age from when they arrived rather than from the time written
in them. A node with a wrong clock, or one replaying its backlog on connect,
emptied the bandmap as fast as it filled it.
Checked by opening a real 56284-contact N1MM log under Xvfb and reading the
contest and contacts back.
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