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HMS Hack – Column Names ….!!

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At your Club Events do you ever have a need to have your HMS Excel results show anything other than the standard columns??

  • maybe in a non-English speaking country, you need different column names
  • if you are running youth/female/age-group leagues as sub-groups of the event
  • you are expecting a lot of overseas visitors and it makes more sense to show Country codes than Club Names
  • in your country you need to show “Association Number” but not have it named “MYA Number”

It’s not something that comes up in the normal run of things at a Club, but in HMS Excel, it’s quite easy to make such changes. In the Example above from the IOM Worlds, you will see that the Race Committee decided to show 3 character country codes where “Club/City” normally resides. They also decided to use the column which defaults to MYA Number to record Age Categories – Under 25, Open, Master, Grand Master etc.

How?

When you set up the spreadsheet ready to load the entry list, you can simply click on the pale blue coloured column headers and change/over-write the column title to anything you want …and click “save”.

IOM Worlds : “Standard Redress” Hot Tip……!!

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A competitor holding a Standard Redress Award will, …not unreasonably,… at some time towards the end of the event check the results table and see what points improvement he/she received in the impacted race.

Remember that Standard Redress awarded points can keep changing as future results arrive.

In the excitement of the moment, if it looks like the redress has not been applied per the Race Committee decision there’s going to be questions !!!!

However, not everyone will remember (experience speaking!) that before the redress is calculated and applied at the defined time, there is one final test to be completed…… “Is the awarded Redress score better/worse than the competitor scored in race itself.” The idea is that as the redress is a result that floats.changes over time, it may come out worse than the competitor actually scored.

In this case, the Scorer should not apply the redress.

TIP : the Scorer’s issue can become how to quickly show any competitor that Standard Redress has been considered but NOT applied because it failed the “BETTER/WORSE than” test. Our suggestion is that if the existing race score is to be left unchanged, it is actually entered in to the system with RDGfix, but at the same value as before. That way, a querying competitor can just quickly glance at the score table and see that the full redress test was applied – and not ask for it to be calculated all over again!!

A Small Piece of IOM Worlds Legacy : Advanced Radio Sailing Transmitter Manuals……!!

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A lot of you clearly know about our downloadable collection of beginner radio sailors’ transmitter manuals. There have been around 2000 downloads now – we have FlySky, Futaba, Spektrum and Radiomaster in there. By the way, the Radiomaster manual on this list is by far the most popular. Given that we estimate there are only 19,000 radio sailors in the world (says AI !!), we think that 2000 download number is pretty interesting.

During the build up to the IOM Worlds, some mind boggling GBR talent put its mind to work to see if advanced features could be found on transmitters that would give the competitors a little competitive edge. The idea became to make three different radio sailing transmitter websites (Radiomaster, Futaba, Spektrum) and charge readers a nominal amount to subscribe to generate some income for the IOM Worlds.

A good idea… but we just ran out of runway and had a thousand other pieces of prep to complete. So we never got around to the monetised subscription idea. We’ve still got the manuals websites though.

For the basic radio sailors’ transmitter manuals, the easiest way to find them is to find the list of “Categories” on this website and select “Transmitter Manuals”. Alternatively use the website’s “Search” bar.

As to the three ‘advanced radio sailing transmitter’ websites, they are now online and available for free. To find them, just click on “RADIOS” on the menu bar of this website and you should find the three of them available there.