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Re: [CQ-Contest] List of WRTC stations / Results /Overspotting, and its

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] List of WRTC stations / Results /Overspotting, and its impact
From: "K1TTT" <K1TTT@ARRL.NET>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:08:12 +0000
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> If you are the DX, spotting can be the death of your run frequency.

Only if you don't know how to handle it.  we have all heard the really good
pileup operators who know what to do when the pileup gets deep, they have no
problem with the short packet pileups... then we have heard the ops who just
can't handle a pileup, either from packet or just because they are popular,
they will be driven off one way or another.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandy Taylor [mailto:ve4xt@mts.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 02:18
> To: 'Joe'; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] List of WRTC stations / Results
> /Overspotting,and its impact
> 
> Hi Mark,
> I think I was pretty clear that the only callsigns filtered would be those
> of WRTC participants. This is ONLY to address the inequality that can
> occur
> when patriotic cheerleaders choose to spot in vast quantities their WRTC
> countrymen/countrypersons.
> 
> The WRTC is usually hosted by countries with more than enough 'other'
> operators that nobody would not be missing a mult. That's usually the only
> way to find enough stations that are similar enough to employ as WRTC host
> stations.
> 
> I also think that the Clustermeisters should look to my suggestion as a
> revenue opportunity. I am perfectly serious when I say that the damage of
> being spotted FAR outweighs the benefits when you are at a station that is
> loud enough to get enough interest without being spotted.
> 
> 
> 73, Kelly
> Ve4xt
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:53 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] List of WRTC stations / Results /Overspotting,
> and
> its impact
> 
> With this thinking,
> 
> That means prior to the 80's there would have been no contesting?
> Because there is no spotting?
> 
> Joe WB9SBD
> On 7/15/2010 10:53 AM, kd4d@comcast.net wrote:
> > Good day, Kelly and everyone:
> >
> > I am concerned about the potential effect of a suggestion "to request
> the
> DX
> > Cluster operators to kindly employ WRTC filters" on the vast majority of
> > participants in the IARU contest.  Relatively few of the callsigns in my
> IARU
> > log are from serious competitors - most are from operators who get on to
> increase
> > country totals, give out a few points, work WRTC competitors, etc..
> >
> > I think we need to consider the casual operators when discussing
> proposals
> like
> > disabling the packet cluster system or filtering out WRTC calls.
> Without
> them,
> > contesting would wither away...
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Mark, KD4D
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kelly Taylor"<theroadtrip@mts.net>
> > To: "Paul O'Kane"<pokane@ei5di.com>, CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:39:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] List of WRTC stations / Results /Overspotting,
> and  its impact
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Is it not possible, just thinking out loud here, to request the DX
> Cluster
> > operators to kindly employ WRTC filters for the course of IARU?
> >
> > [...]
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