Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2023 22:25:14 +0000
I am interested to hear the opinion of the DX side on this topic. I was trying to self-spot a number of times without much success. I tried on DX Summit. The spot was posted. I tried on DX Watch. The
I self-spotted quite a bit this past weekend after vowing NOT do do so before the contest. But, having been spotted so little in past contests, especially on SSB, I decided to test the hypothesis tha
Rule for consideration for next year: You can work yourself for QSO points once every 10 minutes. Barry W2UP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contest
One thing to keep in mind about DXsummit is that if you post a spot there, only people that are also using DXsummit will see your spot. Anyone using any other cluster will not see your spots as spots
I have been contesting about 5-6 years and have always CHOSEN to be low power and unassisted. I CHOSE not to self spot this past weekend, thinking that (for me) that would be an assistance. Bob KQ2M
Between ARRL DX CW and Phone weekends, DXSummit seems to have turned off posting self spots that originated on standard DX clusters. 73, Steve, N2IC _______________________________________________ CQ
Steve, For a few days DXsummit was having issues where *no* spots originating from outside of DXsummit itself were being displayed. This has since been fixed and all spots, both local to DXsummit and
I think the explanation is that when you spotted yourself on DX Summit you attracted a few casual operators who were just looking at DX Summit scroll by. Then you got a spot from one of those guys or
Hi Bob, <<< After the contest I searched for my call on DX Summit to see who spotted me and noticed that almost no one did besides myself. Based on dxheat.com database, you've been spotted 114 times
Author: Weisz László via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 21:07:35 +0100
...All my selfspots only generated a few calls ..., then the flow of calls was nothing like that generated by a spot on the cluster. But when a North American station put me on the cluster, it was re