DB4SCW Award Management Suite

DB4SCW Award Management Suite #

About this page #

The DB4SCW Award Management suite consists of two pieces of software written by Stefan Wolf, DB4SCW:

  • Hamawardz, a software for self service award checking and downloading
  • Coordinatorr, a software to plan and coordinate usage of event callsigns by multiple operators to prevent usage collisions

About Hamawardz #

Hamawardz is a simple, free ham radio award checking and downloading software. It is based on the Laravel PHP Framework.

As it is based on Laravel, it runs on pretty much all the webservers (Apache, NGINX) and on the tiniest of computers (even the raspberry pi).

Hamawardz is tested on Apache only.

Hamawardz Technology #

Hamawardz is able to run using all the database engines permitted by Laravel (SQLITE, MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres, etc.).

Hamawardz is tested on SQLITE (which is plenty for most users and allows Hamawardz to run very efficiently even on tiny machines like a raspberry pi) and MySQL. Postgres should also be fine for 99,99% of operations (BETA at the moment).

Hamawardz Features #

Hamawardz offers:

  • Checking of your eligibility for multiple awards in one go without logging in or having to create an account
  • Downloading of customizable (landscape) awards as PDF
  • Event callsigns participating in multiple events at the same time
  • Multiple users permitted to upload for 1 event callsign
  • Ability to have multiple event manager accounts for 1 event
  • Multiple rulesets for different awards in 1 event
  • Fully configurable autoimport for QSOs from other log programs, if the logbook database is accessible on the same database connection as hamawardz
  • API to Wavelog (a free and open source web based logging program) to periodically auto-import any newly entered QSOs

Hamawardz is not for you, if… #

  • your event does not have fixed participants (hamawardz requires each event callsign to be explicitly registered in the software and to actively upload logs)
  • your award rules are something like “Have x QSOs with any random German operator”
  • your ruleset requires that the applicants for awards have to send in their logs instead of the event callsign operators

Installation and documentation #

Please refer to the links in the sidebar.

Demo #

You can find a demo system here. Use username “administrator” and password “welcome#01” to log in as system administrator. Use “DL0LOL” as the applicants callsign to check the award creation process.

Attention: The database for this demo will be reset each day at 00:00 UTC.

About Coordinatorr #

Coordinator is an even simpler, free ham radio event callsign booking tool.

Many countrys dictate that an event callsign may only be on the air with 1 signal (and one operator) at a time. Coordinator lets you reserve a callsign for a period of time, as well as manage just-in-time activations. All users can see which operator is active at any point in time.

Coordinatorr Technology #

The same technology as with Hamawardz, see above.

Coordinatorr Features #

  • Unlimited event callsigns
  • Unlimited operators
  • Unlimited reservations (planned activations)
  • Unlimited activations

Installation and documentation #

Please refer to the links in the sidebar.

Demo #

You can find a demo system here. Use Admin secret “simsalabim” as the admin secret (consult the documentation for how to open the admin panel). Use “DL0LOL” as the operator callsign to check the reservation processes.

Attention: The database for this demo will be reset each day at 00:00 UTC.