The people using the RBN are NOT the target of CW self spots. They already
have the data.
The target is the casual operators who form a large portion of the difference
in the top scores (at least for Multis). Many of these operators still use
old-style clusters that don't carry RBN skims. We all rely on the casual
operators for points!
SSB is obviously different.
73,
Mark, KD4D
On March 1, 2023 9:41:01 AM EST, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
>Actually, the impact is even less than John suggests - the article on the RBN
>web site is badly outdated - last year in CQWWCW the RBN posted well over 10
>million spots in the 48 hours. From the self-spotting station's standpoint,
>doing so would be much more impactful during SSB contests.
>
>73, Pete N4ZR
>
>On 3/1/2023 6:59 AM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
>> I'm not a fan of the self spotting decision for HF contests, but I don't
>> think it approaches mayhem - more just another level of erosion of old norms.
>> The Reverse Beacon Network
>> (https://www.reversebeacon.net/pages/Using+the+RBN+33) quotes an average
>> rate of about 20 spots per second during a major CW contest, which works out
>> to roughly 3.5M spots over a 48 hour contest.
>> There are 288 10 minute segments in a 48 hour contest. If 5,000 ops were
>> self-spotting every 10 minutes for the entire 48 hours, it would only be
>> about 1M spots over the contest duration - and that is a very high estimate.
>> So, roughly a 30% increase in spotting volume is not going to be a big deal
>> in a CW contest. In a phone contest, the spot volume is so low and the
>> volume won't approach that of a CW contest.
>> 73 John K3TN
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