I believe the main reason is the network would be overloaded with
endless self-spots. In the old days, when the network was on Packet,
that would have been a problem at 300 baud. Nowadays, at least for most
Cluster nodes, it's a non-issue over the Internet.
Barry W2UP
Tree wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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Barry Kutner, W2UP Lakewood, CO
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