During the contest, I noted a W1 station doing a lot of spotting of stateside stations, many of whom were his fellow YCCC members. As a result of this, one of my fellow FRCers started spotting some o
I also noticed this happening. It started about 30 minutes into the contest. Spotting your buddy in the next town so that it will get on to a cluster in Europe goes against the spirit of the contest.
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:40:02 -0600
I think it is cheating. The only way this is any different than self-spotting is that the beneficiary of the contacts generated by this solicitation on the network is a club score and not specificall
Author: "Alfred J. Frugoli (KE1FO)" <frugoli@worldlinkisp.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 16:01:46 -0500
I'd argue it's fine in principle, however the motivation and ethicality (is that even a word?) may be in question. All those stations are zone and country multipliers. I know I didn't work zone 5 on
Hi No doubt not because it wasn't available, but you simply didn't try to get a zone 5 in USA until you took an inventory of what you still needed. Packet would help you to the tune of about 16.3 sec
I didn't check the packet logs for Saturday, but on Sunday I didn't find many USA stations spotting USA stations. Out of 18,000 spots on Sunday, I ignored those on SSB, or on 10-18-24 MHz, or on 6 me
I will filter out the US spots now. In the past there was no reason to do so. Spotting one's own club members is similar to selfspotting, which is prohibited. It's a fine line... Also, if you knew th
Those spots are probably less use than you might think. Many nodes, and many individual users, filter out spots from outside their immediate area, so stateside spotters often don't get seen by many d
So now you can´t spot certain stations and also you have to spot in a specific way (ala W3UR), I just shake my head to it. Forget it, I will spot any station I feel like spotting, being a SM2,
many have asked, the general rule i give them is 'spot everything'. what i tell my operators is that 'if you type in a call while s&p, spot it'. it helps to fill up the band maps and keep them curre
Spot what ever you want and when ever you want. Just be prepared for chaos if you spot a rare one on your run frequency! :) Bernie, W3UR -- Bernie McClenny, W3UR Editor of The Daily DX, The Weekly DX
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kharker@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:50:44 -0600
A competitive station spots itself during a contest. The objective is to attract users of the DX spotting network to call this competitive station and provide it with more QSOs, possibly more multipl
to station its a objective members thereby my ah, but you forgot one important thing. The spotting network we have today started out as many different club networks that were designed by clubs to he
As a "big gun" the pile ups resulting from packet are more of a nuisance than a hinderance. I would imagine most of the other big guns don't have a problem with the pileups. They are usually first at
How do you work the spotted station if you can't hear him under the continuous callers? (I suppose by having a big enough stack that your F-S ratio is good enough to knock down the domestic lids...)