diff --git a/not1mm/rtc_service.py b/not1mm/rtc_service.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+not1mm Contest logger
+Email: michael.bridak@gmail.com
+GPL V3
+Class: RTCService
+Purpose: Service to post 'real time' scores.
+"""
+
+# pylint: disable=unused-import, c-extension-no-member, no-member, invalid-name, too-many-lines
+# pylint: disable=logging-fstring-interpolation, line-too-long, no-name-in-module
+
+import datetime
+import logging
+import os
+from json import loads
+
+import requests
+from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
+
+from PyQt6.QtCore import QObject, pyqtSignal, QThread, QEventLoop
+
+import not1mm.fsutils as fsutils
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class RTCService(QObject):
+    """The RTC Service class."""
+
+    poll_callback = pyqtSignal(dict)
+    delta = 2  # two minutes
+    poll_time = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(minutes=delta)
+    time_to_quit = False
+    xml = ""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.pref = self.get_settings()
+        self.delta = self.pref.get("rtc_interval", 2)
+
+    def run(self) -> None:
+        """Send score xml object to rtc scoring site."""
+        while not self.time_to_quit:
+            # if self.pref.get("send_rtc_scores", False) is True:
+            if datetime.datetime.now() > self.poll_time:
+                self.poll_time = datetime.datetime.now() + datetime.timedelta(
+                    minutes=self.delta
+                )
+                if len(self.xml):
+                    headers = {"Content-Type": "text/xml"}
+                    try:
+                        result = requests.post(
+                            self.pref.get("rtc_url", ""),
+                            data=self.xml,
+                            headers=headers,
+                            auth=HTTPBasicAuth(
+                                self.pref.get("rtc_user", ""),
+                                self.pref.get("rtc_pass", ""),
+                            ),
+                            timeout=30,
+                        )
+                        print(f"{self.xml=}\n{result=}\n{result.text}")
+                    except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
+                        print("RTC post timeout.")
+                    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
+                        print(f"An RTC post error occurred: {e}")
+                else:
+                    print("No XML data")
+                try:
+                    self.poll_callback.emit({"success": True})
+                except QEventLoop:
+                    ...
+            QThread.msleep(1)
+
+    def get_settings(self) -> dict:
+        """Get the settings."""
+        if os.path.exists(fsutils.CONFIG_FILE):
+            with open(fsutils.CONFIG_FILE, "rt", encoding="utf-8") as file_descriptor:
+                return loads(file_descriptor.read())