I have to agree with that statement. I remember the early days when spotting was done on 2 meters and was local. Worked great and it still looks the same on the internet. Hey if it works, don't fix i
S&P Search and Pounce? Spot and Pounce? he he he I'm the old way I tune the knob all the time. Joe WB9SBD *The Original Rolling Ball Clock http://www.idle-tyme.com* w1md@cfl.rr.com wrote: ___________
My station is here ONLY because of club competition. We win very few contests outright, and probably won't in the future. But I can bring out contesters who don't have their own station to work toge
But who cares, packet spotting wasn't created for the single op, it was created for multi-ops to help club scores. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Clus
The gentleman who was talking about club competition being harmful appears to me to have misidentified the problem. The real problem, I think, is the particular club that he was referring to. I email
Dave The question is not making a bigger score, he would have still beaten the closest competitor because it is skill more than enything else.. I would see him going to the spots and fighting pileups
The advantage of the local spots was if it was spotted, I could most likely hear and work the station. Spots from Transylvania for stations I can't hear here don't do me a lot of good. Computer loggi
I don't understand the "non amateur communications" you refer to Paul. I don't know what the ratio is between users who are on their local cluster via packet radio or via the internet, but packet rad
As a QRP station most of the time, as soon as someone was spotted it was too late for me to try! So I'd look at all the other stations I needed and would often find the crowd thinned out on some of t
If "non amateur-radio communications technology" was/is a rule violation for delivering spots, the contest sponsors should have made this clear and banned it when the spotting network began migratin
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:14:10 -0800
Before the wide-spread interconnection of clusters, a packet spot on one cluster would not result in a packet pileup. The overall number of spots that any individual station would see was much more m
This is almost sad. Where winning has become everything. My little 430 and a long wire, and while yes I may not win, and that for sure. But to these types I willing to wager I have more fun. Joe WB9S
-- I don't know that I agree with that. Before the world wide clusters, when it was done on 2 meters with some UHF linking around the state, you could tell when you were spotted in different areas. Y
It seems for me there is way to solve this problem to consider to install the pure (honest) unassisted cotegory - add to the Cluster protocol one more filter which could be fill out by sponsor by cl