I am one of the “casual “ contesters. I am an avid participater, but not a
challenger for top score. In many contests, I operate non-assisted. Although I
frequently “run”, the panadapter on my SDR radio makes S&P very easy. While
doing S&P, I often work stations that don’t show up on the DXcluster. I would
really like to spot these stations, but the wording of what constitutes
assistance prevents me from doing a favor to those guys.
I would like to see the definition reworded to include anyone who uses spots to
make a contact, but not someone who merely sends a spot and get no benefit from
doing so. This would make me feel more like I am a part of the contest and
not an outsider.
Stan, K4SBZ
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> On Nov 19, 2020 at 1:26 PM, <N4ZR (mailto:n4zr@comcast.net)> wrote:
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> Did you know that over 40,000 different stations made at least one contact
> with the 8500 stations who submitted logs for the CQWW SSB contest in 2018?
> Without the non-entrant, casual ops, SSB contesting would be a lot less fun
> for us all. And why do the casual ops get on? I submit that for most of them,
> the chance to work new countries, zones, states and so on are what it's all
> about. And how do they know which stations to call, to achieve these goals?
> They connect to DX clusters. Okay, so what? Well, as someone recently pointed
> out, there has been a pretty steep decline in human spotting of both SSB and
> CW, at least partly because on CW, there's little need to spot anyone any
> more. The RBN takes care of that. But on SSB -- not so much. The problem is
> exacerbated because contest sponsors tend to view any cluster connection
> during a contest as evidence that the connected station *must* be assisted.
> This tends to deter people from spotting unless they themselves are, in
> fact, in the assisted category. This, in turn, means that features like
> N1MM+'s "Spot all S&P QSOs" don't get the use they could. So, what to do? It
> would be helpful if contest sponsors would clarify their rules to specify
> that stations entering as unassisted can still send spots. -- 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at<http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> spotting RTTY activity worldwide. For spots, please use your favorite
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