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WRTC2014 Announces Live Scoreboard to Track Team Standings 
July  1, 2014 
 
WINDHAM, NH Issued July 1, 2014…WRTC 2014, Inc., host of the 2014 World  
Radiosport Team Championship competition, announced today that there will be a 
 live scoreboard for tracking the team standings during the event July 
12-13,  2014. The Live Scoreboard will be directly accessible on the web at 
_http://sb.wrtc2014.org_ (http://sb.wrtc2014.org/)  or from a link on the 
WRTC2014  web site (_wrtc2014.org_ (http://wrtc2014.org/) ). 
The scoreboard uses an innovative data collection method developed by Dave  
Pascoe KM3T and Bob Raymond WA1Z. Each WRTC2014 team  will be using 
networked computers to log the contest. The score collection  system will “sniff” 
the network traffic to obtain the latest score and QSO  breakdown 
information. This data will be transmitted by cellular modem every 5  minutes back to 
the score processing web site. Previous WRTC events used manual  score 
submissions on an hourly basis. This will be the first to use automation  to 
present scores in near real-time. 
The web site will show the scores of all teams ordered by score.  Clicking 
on a team will reveal the team’s band breakdown, hourly rate sheet, and  
position for each hour of the contest. A leader board page will list the top 5  
teams by CW contacts, SSB contacts, multipliers, and points per QSO. 
Another innovation is the ability to select multiple teams and compare  
their scores on a graph vs time. This will reveal how the fortunes of teams  
change over the 24 hours as they follow their various strategies for  building 
their score. 
“We have spent a lot of time confirming the cell signal levels for all 
sites  and are confident that we will have real-time scoring from all 59 teams,” 
said  WRTC2014 Director Dave Pascoe, KM3T. “Bob Raymond has done a great 
job on the  scoreboard web site design and we expect it will be very exciting 
for friends  and family, as well as for hams worldwide, to follow the 
competitors as  they move through the 24 hours.” 
Teams will be shown by the calls of the team members rather than their  
over-the-air callsign. This is done to maintain fairness by keeping the team  
identity behind each callsign a secret. The teams are not allowed to identify 
 themselves over the air except by their competition callsign. 
The site uses responsive design principles to provide maximum usability on  
desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms. 
The scoreboard site is live before the contest for testing purposes.  All 
scores will be reset to zero before the contest begins at 1200  UTC on July 
12, 2014. 
About WRTC2014 
The World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) is held every four years and  
consists of 50+ two-person teams of amateur radio operators from around the 
 world competing in a test of operating skill.  Unlike most on-the-air  
competitions, all stations are required to use identical antennas from the same 
 geographic region, eliminating all variables except operating ability.  
Previous WRTCs have been held in Seattle (1990), San Francisco (1996),  
Slovenia (2000), Finland (2002), Brazil (2006), and Russia (2010).  More  
information is available at _www.wrtc2014.org_ (http://www.wrtc2014.org/)  or 
contact WRTC Chairman Doug Grant,  K1DG, via e-mail at _k1dg at wrtc2014.org_ 
(mailto:k1dg at wrtc2014.org) . 

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