HISS Overview - Types of Contests

One of the basic principals of HISS is the encouragement of spontaneous and personalized Ham Radio contesting. Scoring is immediate and posted on the HISS dashboard for anyone to see and follow along. Once a contest is over the results are known and the contest is closed and no new entries are allowed. Results are kept on the system for about a week then removed for the system.

At this time HISS scoring is very simple, just a count of QSOs. We plan to enhance this with more filters and scoring features in the future. Because all scoring is immediate, HISS also does NOT validate entries.

Duplicate entries by an account in a contest are filtered out. A duplicate is any entry that has the same contact callsign, on the same band, and same mode.

Contests can be either “Individual” or “Team” contests.

Individual Contest

An individual contest is where each account is scored independently.

Team Contest

A team contest has each participant join a team and the score is the sum of all contacts for team members. The creator of a team contest can select if duplicate contacts are allowed across all members of the team.

Spotting

A contest creator can select if spotting is allowed. If it is then the most recent contacts will be posted on the dashboard. If the contest is a team contest and spotting is allowed then only team members will be able to see the spots for their team.

Chatting

A contest creator can select if chatting is allowed. This lets a participant in a contest send messages to others in the contest. If the contest is a team contest then messages can be posted to only other team members or ‘broadcast’ to all in the contest.