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Re: [CQ-Contest] Ban all contest spotting?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Ban all contest spotting?
From: "Paul O'Kane" <pokane@ei5di.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 17:43:46 -0000
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felipe J Hernandez" <fhdez@islandnetjm.com>

> 1  ... packet is not going away.. we cannot criminalize it!

Agreed - it's the self-spotting that has been criminalized :-)

> Based on this we can safely add packet to the SO class and not
> worry about it,

Not quite.  There's no reason for SO to change from being a
"one man and his dog" class and, at the same time, benefit
from being spotted (nothing new there).  It might be fun,
however, to be spotted more often - even if that includes
self-spotting.  Single ops would still have to find and work
mults all by themselves.  Not everyone will agree - I hope
we hear from them.

On this thread, W1MD asked -

> So...maybe this is a "good" argument for allowing self-spotting.
> Say, allow each contestant in the contest the option to post their
> call/freq. every 30min's . (no more reports of the 'most spotted
> calls'...since everyone who is ON the network should have roughly
> the same number of spots over the weekend...96...no more
> cheerleaders or self spotters...WE'd ALL be self spotters)

I'd go along with that.  Are there filters that could control
a 30-minute rule - whether for self-spotting or being spotted
(for those who do not have, or do not want, network access)?

73,
Paul EI5DI
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