I have always felt that self spotting was something that should not be
allowed... although I am hard pressed to explain exactly why. I guess
it falls into using non-amateur communications for facilitating QSOs.
Certainly, I would hate to see packet turn into an advertising free for
all - with everyone self spotting themselves every 5 minutes.
However, I can think of a situation where self spotting might be a good
thing. I was reading VE8EV's 3830 post after the SSB Sweepstakes last
year and caught this comment:
"Finally we got spotted and then the rate jumped from 0 to 100 in the
blink of an eye."
Wow. That's a big change. Probably when the pileup started - it
attracted enough attention that even those not on packet knew something
was up. If someone is off in a weird direction and isn't able to attract
attention with their small signal - having a spot certainly enables them
to start making QSOs.
I wouldn't think someone from VE8 is likely to be a top ten score and
the reason they are on the air is to give people a clean sweep. Is this
a case where a self spot or two wouldn't be bad thing?
73 Tree N6TR
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