Yes, Jim, this is poor practice. And if would dare speculate, I would go as
far as saying that these spots were probably generated by a station actually in
the contest but using a different callsign than EA9LS.
IMO, this is the same as "self spotting". And should not be confused with a
strategy where someone spots a rare station, you go there and there is no one
on that frequency, so you go ahead and CQ. I did not use this trick in WPX,
but it seems perfectly within the rules and the intent of the contest.
I did notice a particular station in W7 land that was spotting stations on his
run frequency. This doesn't bother me if a station sends out, say one spot,
just
to let people know there is a rare station floating around S&P on that band that
you my want to fish for. However, when several spots come out for the same
frequency from the station running on that frequency, it's the same as self
spotting.
Good point to bring up.
>From what I can tell, I had more multipliers than any other single op in WPX,
so I was jumping on every single multiplier spotted on the cluster after the
first
24 hours. It doesn't do much good chasing multipliers via packet spots on the
first day (unless it's a very rare one you don't think will be there on Sunday)
because you will get at least 1 new multiplier in every 3 QSO's just by running
CQ.
73, Don AA5AU
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Martin" <MM0BQI@thersgb.net>
To: "rtty" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:40 AM
Subject: [RTTY] DX Spotting during WPX
> I noticed during the contest the number of spots put on the cluster by a
> station using the callsign 'EA9LS'
> They all seem to refer to DX stations working another EA9 who was running on
> that frequency.
> Seems to me that this type of 'well intentioned' help for a friend could get
> that friend in hot water with the contest organisers. I certainly support
> local stations by spotting them during contests but this seems a bit over
> the top. I have copied a few lines from DX-Summit below
>
> EA9LS 28109.5 WW7OR ea9 1615 09 Feb 2003
> EA9LS 28109.5 W6NL wrk ea9 1643 09 Feb 2003
> EA9LS 28113.0 W1ZT wrk ea9 1647 09 Feb 2003
> EA9LS 28113.0 8P2K wrk ea9 1653 09 Feb 2003
> EA9LS 28113.0 XE2XX 1658 09 Feb
> 2003
> EA9LS 28113.0 VE9FX 1701 09 Feb
> 2003
>
> 73
> Jim MM0BQI
>
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