[MacLoggerContest] Contest entry screen specification

[B. Scott Andersen]

David,

I'll start this without all the indents.

1. Super check partial
This is just a text file containing call signs of known contesters.
It does not involve contact with the outside world at all. That's
why it is OK. The SCP is already implemented in the current
MLDX. This is part of the contest helper panel.

2. The RST thing is obviously contest-dependent.
I can only speak to the typical HF contests. The RST is a blind
59 or 5NN for most everything below 30 MHz. I can't speak
to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing; I can tell you
only that it seems well entrenched.

3. Every contest has at least a serial number?
Here are some that do not:
* CQ WW (both Phone and CW) ==> RS(T) + CQ Zone 5905 or 5NN05
* ARRL 10m ==> RS(T) and state/province (DX sends S/N)
* North American QSO party ==> Name + S/P/C (note RS(T) not required!)
* New England QSO party ==> RS(T) + S/P, DX sends "DX"
... just to name a few.
This isn't to say that support of serial numbers isn't important.
Of course it is! But, there are a fair number of contests, including
CQ WW DX -- the biggest contest of them all -- that do not.

Again, with only a fixed contest frame in MLDX everything will be
a compromise. That said, I'm sure that sufficient thought could
better the attempt that I have made. If we are to try, then I would
recommend that we have the discussion here on this MLDX contest
list, engage its members, and come up with something that the
group can get behind. Once we have consensus we can approach
Don and ask if he would consider the proposal.

What we should avoid, of course, is to have multiple, contradictory,
competing proposals all land on Don's desk. I dare say that would
get us nowhere. Or so it seems to me...

-- Scott (NE1RD)


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