Au contraire.
First, I always verify the callsign myself. I prefer not to be dinged
for a bad call. If the station doesn't ID within 2 or 3 QSOs, I move on.
Second, being in the same category as you from my home station, I prefer
to avoid the Cluster spots, as there are too many blind callers.
Barry W2UP
On 8/17/2018 10:11 AM, Michael Clarson wrote:
As a member of the SOCA (LP) crowd (Single Op, Crap antenna, low power) I
find spots quite useful to point out stations I have already worked so I
don't have to stick around 10 mins for an ID. --Mike, WV2ZOW
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:18 AM Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j@benshome.net> wrote:
On 8/16/2018 3:43 PM, Holger Hannemann wrote:
The biggest assistance one can get in a contest are DX cluster spots! The
moment you got spotted you've got assistance, period!
OTOH, for us pop-gun (or, as I call it, Bedsprings Brigade (as in
compared to the tower-and-beam crowd, we might as well be loading up old
metal bedsprings)) stations, there's not much advantage to the spotting
network. We typically can't run much, so we're primarily S&P. And when
a station we're trying to work is spotted, it makes working them a lot
harder. We're better off trying to tune in new stations by ourself (in
hopes of catching them before they're spotted) than to hunt spots where
there's likely to be more competition than we can handle.
Ben
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same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
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