Stu is correct that sharing this sort of information is valuable. I
believe, however, that the "gentleman's agreement" always was to do an
Announcement of these occurrences rather than a DX Spot.
Of course, as K1TTT points out, a band edge spot is easily identifiable, and
at least with CT easily removed from the Alt-A screen.
73,
N5NJ
P.S. Hi Stu !
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From: KC1F <KC1F@prodigy.net>
To: Gary Schwartz <garyk9gs@solaria.sol.net>; cq-contest@contesting.com
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Cc: k4oj@ij.net <k4oj@ij.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contesting, exchanges/frequency
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>> What was even more annoying was the following type of spot:
>>
>> DX 14000 HS0XXX Just called me
>>
>> This is REALLY useless since,
>>
>> A) I have no idea what frequency the station posting the spot is even
>on.
>> B) It does not convey ANY useful information.
>> C) The possibility of this information resulting in me actually WORKING
>> this multiplier is pretty small.
>>
>> It seemed to happen almost exclusively from large East coast M/S - M/M
>who
>> really should know better.
>
> Hi all - I disagree with this, although these spots are obviously more
>valuable when you have established a running frequency, and I suppose it
>helps to be loud. I can remember several occasions within the past year,
>while running Europe on 20 meters from New Hampshire, where a "14.000"
>spot for an Asian showed up, I turned the beam north, and the needed mult
>called me withing 2-3 minutes. We might not have heard each other with the
>beam not turned that way. I suspect this phenomenon is even more
>pronounced from a VERY loud station, where the DX may only be able to hear
>a few US stations on the band, and he will find you quickly.
>
> 73 Stu KC1F@prodigy.net
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