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<H1 class=entry-title>WRTC2014 Announces Live Scoreboard to Track Team Standings
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<H2 class=entry-meta><TIME class="published updated" datetime="2014-07-01">July
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<P>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 <A
href="http://sb.wrtc2014.org/" target=_blank><FONT
color=#003cf2>http://sb.wrtc2014.org</FONT></A> or from a link on the WRTC2014
web site (<A href="http://wrtc2014.org/" modo="false"><FONT
color=#003cf2>wrtc2014.org</FONT></A>).</P>
<P>The scoreboard uses an innovative data collection method developed by Dave
Pascoe KM3T and Bob Raymond WA1Z. <SPAN id=more-3067></SPAN>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>“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.”</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>The site uses responsive design principles to provide maximum usability on
desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms.</P>
<P>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.</P>
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<P><STRONG>About WRTC2014</STRONG></P>
<P>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 <A href="http://www.wrtc2014.org/"><FONT
color=#003cf2>www.wrtc2014.org</FONT></A> or contact WRTC Chairman Doug Grant,
K1DG, via e-mail at <A href="mailto:k1dg@wrtc2014.org"><FONT
color=#003cf2>k1dg@wrtc2014.org</FONT></A>.</P>
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